@lichelordgodfrey@justnormalkorean Doesn't help most unions are Communist breeding grounds as a byproduct if not conceived by them in the 1st place, but no need for the exposition as I'm well experienced in the destruction of the economy & generational wealth, I'm from Chicago.
the AFL-CIO was a union conceived from its beginning to undermine other unions, as a communist (aka pro-jewish) "union".
issue is, there's been nobody at the top who cares to not just outsource jobs overseas or across the border (Mexico).
they did not have to allow this to happen, but they did. it was, and is, "American" state policy to undermine workers.
the USA is rich in resources and land enough that we do not need to rely upon anyone else for almost anything. no, we don't need legal/illegal immigrants either; there's nothing wrong with achieving a kind of equilibrium in births/deaths, technology was making us more productive per worker anyway!
and besides that, bringing in peoples from around the world of lower IQ to first world nations (well, the USA was formerly first world, not so much anymore), to suddenly have first world living standards, dramatically increased the amount of local and oceanic pollution. fuck the carbon in the air bullshit, look at your local rivers, your land, the ocean near you.
not to mention the sheer amount of oceanic pollution from constantly running absolutely enormous cargo ships and tankers over it, dwarfing all the world's car pollution. oh, and all the airplanes constantly flying in and out of all manner of airports because even though they don't have passengers they can't stay in one place too long.
none of this is really efficient in a way that makes much sense, except that it is efficient in extracting wealth from the have nots to the haves, and ensuring no country participating in the system wholeheartedly is ever autarkic/independent.
@justnormalkorean That's the opinion so far, they totally fucked themselves by being woke, so now this is the only way people are going to experience the game.
@fal1026@justnormalkorean no treatment of unions, labor rights, etc, in fiction is going to really "hit" if they're not able to tackle the biggest union busting tactic big capital has employed for centuries now:
racial inclusivity.
oh, your White workers are on strike for better conditions and pay? just send in the Blacks!
hmm, running outta Blacks who can even hack it at the job?
well, turn on that spic spigot and you've got an endless stream of various kinds of Mestizos and other mixed "Hispanic" peoples from south of the border!
hmm, the spics and (native) blacks are smart enough to unionize? well... bring in the Africans fresh from Africa!
etc.
the cope that "leftists" have is that capitalism "invented" racism; it did no such thing.
it exploited natural differences between races that always invariably cause strife and an inability to cooperate due to inherent differences between them.
it continues to do so with gusto.
Amazon and other big corporations have as part of their hiring practices the requirement that they keep the workplace as diverse in race as possible as an acknowledged union suppression tactic.