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See, unions only exist if the government sanctions their existence, unlike corporations and private property rights that has nothing to do with the state enforcing their claims.

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obviously those things are just inherent in nature

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Wayne correctly intuits that strikes and unions are not the fundamental source of workers’ power, only to incorrectly intuit that such a source must not exist at all

Wayne’s imagination is shackled by liberalism, so much that he cannot even see outside of it

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Nah, I like this guy’s idea.

Let’s accelerate making people more desperate and more radicalized as institutions become more brittle and more vulnerable.

What could possibly go wrong?

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God this is the most thing I could possibly say, but:

Username checks out

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huffing their own farts so hard they start to think that regulatory capture is regulations

anyway throwback to 1992 when mine workers in Canada rigged up an anti-scab IED that fucking murdered nine scabs as they rolled into the mine on a cart lmfao https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/giant-mine-explosion

you see workers just appear as if from the ether, they don’t draw from any sort of community of skilled professionals that largely know each other and would resent some of them fucking over the others for personal gain

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they start to think that regulatory capture is regulations

If you were born in the last 40 years, I can’t blame you. That’s all a lot of people have ever known.

you see workers just appear as if from the ether, they don’t draw from any sort of community of skilled professionals that largely know each other and would resent some of them fucking over the others for personal gain

Workers are increasingly alienated, both socially and physically. The regional networks of professionals have largely been polluted with scam organizations and self-help hustlers. Offices and worksites have become fractured into assembly-line like sub-components with more and more of the labor outsourced overseas. And the businesses themselves get larger, while the communication between departments and offices gets routed through more and more layers of middle management.

I don’t think its safe to say skilled professionals all know each other, outside of the superficial associations like LinkedIn. We might all know the same handful of institutions that employ us, but that’s only so beneficial.

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I’ve never heard of this before, thanks for sharing. Most of my knowledge of labor action is for the US. I didn’t know Canadians were still based in the 90s. Rodgers Warren is now in my vocabulary. Guy took 10 years in prison and didn’t rat anyone out, despite being charged with 9 murders.

Also, lol @ Karen Fullowka get fucked scab spawn. Your dad deserved it.

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“Within an inch of their life”? Too merciful. I don’t see the job market changing till bosses fear for their lives again

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See folks, I’m the compromise candidate. There are those who say bosses should fear for their lives, but I can reach across the aisle and make that happen without actually killing them. My plan would simply break their legs and burn down their homes as a warning without the need for such extremism from the left.

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If I lose everything this will be my preferred form of

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“Collective bargaining is a fairytale! Now shut up so I can tell you how the Good and Rightful CEO Moneybags and his Court Wizard single-handedly summoned 50,000 workers capable of doing the Longshoremen’s jobs with no prior training or experience!”

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