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It's yet another in a LONG long line of articles that tries to shift the blame for stagnating wages on to: * technological progress instead of: * steady de-u
by crdoconnor 12y ago
It's yet another in a LONG long line of articles that tries to shift the blame for stagnating wages on to:
* technological progress
instead of:
* steady de-unionization and
* obfuscated trade policies designed to fuck normal people (NAFTA, CAFTA and now TTIP AND TPP).
tl;dr - "dem robots took 'er jerbs" and "pay no attention to the man behind the curtain writing trade policy".
- geogra4 12y agoCorrect. Just sweeping under the rug the labour history that made the mid 20th century so egalitarian with respect to wealth. If we want a more egalitarian distribution of wealth, we have to demand it. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Hunger_March https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Hunger_March
- icebraining 12y agoWhile I'm fully supportive of unionization and organized labour, that doesn't seem like a particularly good example. What exactly did they gain from the march, besides getting shot at? The 1941 Rouge River strike it mentions in passing seems like a much better example.
- geogra4 12y agoFair enough. There are hundreds of episodes to pick from in labour history.
- Spooky23 12y agoTechnological progress sits hand in hand with globalization, which fits into the conflicts of the 20th century. All this stuff started as walking away from nationalism and imperialism after WW2 and shifting to America's form of economic imperialism. Free trade equalizes the players... if you don't have capital, you get the shaft. NAFTA was bad for factory workers in the US, and it devastated the agricultural economy of Mexico.
- marcosdumay 12y ago* corruption (what's the main cause of your second bullet, is a direct cause of stagnating wages, and is a big cause of market power concentration - a bullet you missed)