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Originally Posted by robot_parade
Sure, but unions generally cover higher-earning 'blue collor' style workers, who are in it for a career, not just a job. Think of minimum wage as a giant union covering *everyone* in the US. We've collectively decided that the least amount that's acceptable to pay (most) workers is this minimum wage, and our representatives have implemented that policy.
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That's true, but what good is raising minimum wage when the CEO's and upper management just decide to outsource more jobs, layoff more people, and raise prices... then give themselves more perks and raises?
Unions helped stop that. Unions made sure that the workers got their share.
However, unions got to powerful and to corrupt and needed limiting... but when we did that the CEO's and upper management then became too powerful, greedy and corrupt.
Now, we need to find a balance between the 2 or we will become a third world nation and if we become a third world nation, so goes all of the world and we enter a whole new feudal society/dark ages.
If we, here in America get our shit together and correct this NOW, we can set examples for the rest of the world. If we don't we show the rest of the world Capitalism fails and in the end this great society our forefathers built so proudly and with so much hope, will have died because we did nothing and our future generations will be left to wonder why.