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Me too. I think too the unions work best when its just a small part of the population that has the power to get what they want. Its like a prisoners dilemma, yhe wider economy can support this group being relatively overpaid to keep them quiet. However not everyone can be overpaid, and when everyone is striking the economy just falls apart.

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So you're saying the only thing keeping the economy together is the fact that not too many people have decided to strike? Considering that strikes are acts of desperation, I guess that means we should hope, for the sake of the system, that we don't come across too much desperation any time soon.

Speaking of prisoner"s dilemmas, I wonder how employers manage to agree on how much employee desperation they can get away with...

No strike acts are not acts of desperation. I understand right now there are some workplaces where wages are low and not keeping up with inflation, but in general the people who strike belong to powerful unions and earn good wages. People on minimum wage rarely strike.

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