Gnads wrote on Sep 28
th, 2021 at 8:26am:
Dnarever wrote on Sep 27
th, 2021 at 9:17pm:
Without unions there would be higher employment. But nobody would get paid.
Yes ... that's called slavery.
Nevermind what they/he(FD) says about the "left elite" .... the left elite have never been left .....
they are merely career politicians who are at heart as "right elite" as any Tory.
Take Anna Bligh as an example.
Unions don't cause unemployment .... they exist to stop exploitation by the unscrupulous of those whose only skill was to provide their labour.
Seems FD fits the unscrupulous tag to a tee.
Yes. It's unfortunate that workers' legal protections (at least in the west) that clearly came out of unionism, are so taken for granted that, in the 21st century, their origins have been lost on many, who seem to assume that they have always existed and (in some cases) that these protections under law are a cancer on society.
And, yes, I also believe that this 'left' / 'right' divide obfuscates the fact that those who ascend to high affluence generally tend to think alike about those 'beneath' them regardless of their respective family's origin. The likely reason being that we are instinctively and deeply concerned with social status and tend to look for visual and philosophical indicators to distance ourselves from identification with a relative underclass.
I mentioned him above, but George Orwell's life experiences forged a strange and powerful dialectic in him when they had him oscillating from one politico/social pole to the other.
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