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Re:Wikipedia Workers in Britain set global first by seeking ... by bpt3 on Thursday June 25, 2026 @02:10PM (#48677166)
So it's insurance against some nebulous, unspecified catastrophe that if it comes to fruition, unions will be effectively powerless to stop anyway.

If that's the best case you can make, they're even more useless to skilled workers than I thought.

Would you like to buy some insurance against aliens destroying the earth as well?

Re:Wikipedia Workers in Britain set global first by seeking ... by dofm on Thursday June 25, 2026 @03:03PM (#48677840)
This comment is much more revealing about you than I think you realise, but it's good to know at least that there's no point in wasting time on arguing things on the merits.
Re:Wikipedia Workers in Britain set global first by seeking ... by bpt3 on Friday June 26, 2026 @04:34PM (#48691643)
I mean I think it's exactly as revealing as I realize, in that I have again explicitly stated that unions are not beneficial to above average workers because they don't need external protections against job loss or substandard working conditions in modern society. To use your terms, they are best off self-insuring against these issues, as is the case with insurance against most forms of loss.

Fearmongering and/or hand wringing about what could get worse in the future doesn't change that reality today.

The big risk to a worker is that they overestimate their skill level, which absolutely does happen, but those people are not in the above average pool I'm talking about in the first place and would in fact benefit from a union.