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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by paxys on Friday April 09, 2021 @02:21PM (#26754048)
> land of the free, a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage

All of this has always been propaganda, nothing more. The average unskilled worker has never had a good life in America.

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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by sokoloff on Friday April 09, 2021 @03:33PM (#26755037)
Has the average unskilled worker "had a good life" at any time or place in the Earth's history?
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Re:Amazon workers vote against unionizing in Alabama by astrange on Friday April 09, 2021 @07:55PM (#26757592)
It was pretty good in the postwar era if they were white, since the average worker came back from the war on the GI Bill and got free education and subsidized suburb buildouts.
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