Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize

Re:Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize by educaysean on Friday April 01, 2022 @05:58PM (#30883760)

I think we reached a good point for the conversation. You're correct in your assessment: I do place a lot of faith and values in empowering individual freedom and agency, so any brush with authoritarian entities usually leave me grumpy. I hope for humanities sake that public opinion of unions in America never devolve into something like that of HOAs.

Thanks for engaging, and have a good one.

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Re:Amazon workers on Staten Island vote to unionize by BuckRogers on Sunday April 03, 2022 @12:30AM (#30894454)

You're conflating democracy and capitalism. In a free and democratic society, individual freedom and agency is imperative. Capitalism is a top-down dictatorship, a mini-monarchy that anyone with money can spin up.

You can't try to misappropriate ideals meant for humanity in general, to a system that's a dictatorship. One you need to involve yourself in just to survive.

That's why there's unions, to help level the bargaining table. Otherwise there's too much power on one side, the one holding all the cards/capital. It stops the race to the bottom.

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