Especially regarding unions in government - they not only cause inequality, they cause corruption and the decline of the rule of law and the rise of tyranny.
Why? We romanticize the poor in this country and vilify the rich. Why? How many of you work for a poor person? The history of Man is strewn with the wreckage of economic systems that have tried this prescription and all have failed. There's a reason: you kill incentive to be productive. Thoreau's flirting with such a social experiment at Walden failed miserably. After all, Henry spent the day under a shade tree writing poetry and Joe spent all day staring at the East end of a West-bound horse in the broiling sun plowing a field, but at the end of the day, they are "paid" the same. Because effort is not perceived as equal, the system breaks down.
Obozo, Bernie, and their ilk are selling the same snake oil that has killed millions throughout history and still there are people stupid enough to believe in a free lunch. Amazing...and sad.
Private sector unions are dead. Less than 7% of the private sector workforce is unionized. I’m not sure it would be possible to go to zero.
No, EQUALITY. Everybody is THE SAME...it’s called SOCIALISM, the mantra of the “workers’ paradise.”
A monopoly is bad because it offers you one choice only.
A union is not in itself a monopoly. Because if the playing field were level, the employer would always have a choice: accept whatever the union is demanding, or fire them all and hire a new permanent work force.
The problem is that the government has made it very difficult for any employer to choose that second option.
What this fascist Muslim really means is spreading OTW—other peoples’ wealth,not his and the ungrateful Moocher he lives with
Yes.
re: Monopolies were and are considered universally evil except when it comes to unions.
I wonder if the author ever heard of government which is theultimate monopoly?
The time of unions are dead. Things have changed since the early 20th century. I’m in software and have never had the luxury of a union nor do I have a pension so I just may be a bit biased.
After reading that article on the Tyson chicken plant making workers wear diapers so they won’t take bathroom breaks, I am not feeling so disgusted with the ideal of unions.
The American/multinational business community has no morals nor ethics. All they care about is money. They are abusing the dignity of human beings and getting away with it because the globe is their workforce/no commpetition.