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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

...replacing fair work for fair pay...

Is it fair pay though? Ofc nobody wants a tyrant. but we should have unions fighting for the rights of workers in all spaces, shouldn't we? Just a thought.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Even in a right to work for less state, it's easier to negotiate with employers for fair pay than it is to do so in a communist society. Communist societies may generally be more equal, but they're equal at a far lower level of income, and in reality it just means trapping everyone at the subsistence level of work drudgery instead of offering many a way to gain greater affluence.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You don't need to be a communist society to have unions tho. Negotiating with a tyrant owned business like Amazon is still very hard.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, that's my point. In fact, real unions die under communism and come to represent the party rather than the workers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Then we're on exactly the same page.
I believe you assumed I'm arguing from a communist perspective, however I'm not.