It's heart warming to see the US rediscover labour unions Republicans wrote American socialists out of the history books but you can't keep the people down!
You'll see increased lobbying from companies for increased migration to keep wages down.
You'll see increased lobbying from companies for increased migration to keep wages down.
After all strong hierarchys controlled by a godking are closer to a company anyway.
What has democracy ever done for us?
The labor movement gave us the 40 hour workweek, weekends off and the minimum wage. They're the reason you have time to opine online right now instead of working.
https://www.businessinsider.com/history-of-the-40-hour-workw... https://exhibitions.lib.umd.edu/unions/labor/living-wage
Labor unions, for one thing.
There is nothing wrong with fighting for workers rights while automation is not here yet.
The problem is that automation has to be taxed accordingly to allow us to live with dignity when there is no job to occupy (i.e UBI), and guess who's against taxation? "The left" would be the wrong answer.
I don't see any paradox. 1.Tax the rich now. 2. Improve worker rights which will push us faster towards automation. 3. Prepare legislation to tax automation and implement UBI.
What happens if we don't do that?
1. The rich will continue to take advantage of people's labor while paying them peanuts. 2. The middle class disappears, we end up with a system of two classes, the slaves and the lords. 3. Automation will come regardless and we won't be ready for it regulation wise, and people will die from hunger.
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It's a hilarious argument that people advocating for workers rights and want wages to go UP are communists that want the wages to go DOWN...
A paradox of the Right is that they say that they fight for peoples' freedoms, yet they continue to fight to restrict freedoms. See any of the Right's stances regarding the freedoms of LGBT people for a salient and current example.
You could say "the Right is against rights", if you want to be cute about it.
There is no mechanism in our capitalist system for allowing people to be automated out of a job while still living a good life.
I find it funny, that here (my country, slovenia), we have right(ish) parties against immigration but more liberal workforce rules, and on the other side, we have both leftish and pure "communist" parties (even with a red star in the logo), supposedly "fighting for the workers" and at the same time supporting more immigration.