I know as a young child, me and my friends were very unhappy with the way those damn unions made it so we couldn't get jobs anymore. Maybe you could bust out one of those fancy diagrams to explain the effect that ceo and stockholder greed has on unemployment.
Unions, while less than perfect, came about because employers were exploiting laborers. Remeber the 80 hour work week? I'm sure the economist of those days fainted between exclamations of, "how is the economy going to survive a minimum wage?!!!" or "how is industry to remain productive when they have to pay their workers more for working over a certain number of hours?!?!?!"
As soon as greed is no longer a problem in the world, unions and overpaid ceos will no longer be a problem. But don't for a moment pretend that the world would be a better place without unions. The idea that it is thoeretically all right for an employer to squeeze every last drop of blood from a worker before discarding his/her body in the trash simply because the laws of supply and demand allow it is disgusting.
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