• @Fedizen@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I’ve literally had a relative say shit like “only construction workers need unions” and other nonsense because he just does not understand that for society to function for more than 100 years, you need to be able to tell your boss to fuckoff or do fuckall and get paid for it. I think people assume that wage earners are the latter but like security cams and bullshit metrics and shit have eroded any semblance of humanity from modern workplaces.

        All of this stems from a few areas that keep labor prices down artificially: Agricultural worker exemptions, prisoner exemptions and corporate personhood. You might be like “why the last one” but its the one that says you are functionally equivalent to a corporate charter in the eyes of the government.

        • The last one was specifically to allow corporations to (effectively) vote. We’ve been living with the political results of that since; it’s one reason why the rest of the world laughs when anyone calls Bernie Sanders a leftist extremist.

          • I hate that everything that is not the opinion of the Republicans is just labelt left and therefore bad. Your politics is just a very weird shit show of two old people screaming at each other that the other one stinks.

    • @tabular@lemmy.world
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      51 year ago

      Minimum wage might not be needed if we instead used universal basic income. Low paying jobs wouldn’t be automatically exploitative since they would still have a minimum income. Perhaps some of those low paying jobs may even bd desireable for certain people over the current minimum wage jobs (e.g. lower or very infrequent hours).