You should read the 90s paperbacks!

Heh. Kind of.

If they’re willing to keep profiting off of you after 40 hours, then yeah, it absolutely does.

Closer to three-quarters than under half, but ok

Ding ding ding!

Yes, because the Soviet bloc famously fell in 1969. Sorry, but if it happened without free trade, free trade doesn’t get the credit. There’s a reason Pakistan is underdeveloped compared to India.

There are no absolute measurements in economics. There’s data, but only relationships of trade and production can be quantified.

Pew are right-wing hacks with notoriously terrible methodology. Harvard, Quinnipiac, and others all show that support is between 52% and 57% of likely voters, and considerably higher for the public at large.

 Naw, it’s the opposite. See, the union also has a right not to associate with you.

No, no they do not. “Got sick of your face” is considered a valid reason to fire someone in at-will states. Employers have to go out of their way to explain that their motives were racist, sexist, or ableist for a non-union employee to have the right to contest their termination.

That’s... the opposite of job security. Sorry, bud, simple market economics dictate that she’s got no leverage at work. Her only opportunities for better pay, professional consideration, or guaranteed retirement benefits are via nepotism and favoritism. She’s not the good guy in this story.

This all sounds like a real thing that 100% actually happened

Yeah, nobody ever got angry over politics before Facebook. Definitely.

No, it fucking hasn’t. The number of wealthy people has grown. The number of poor people has grown much more quickly. Industriaslization has not spread to former colonies except where created by Soviet-backed, strong-armed import substitution.

A generation!? Medicare for all its supported by most voters. The reason it hasn’t been passed is because of anti-democratic structures like state government and the electoral college. I sincerely think any argument for or against Universal Healthcare and Socialized Medicine that doesn’t take those things into account…

Yes. My post (solely) regarding the topic of a public conversation is totally the same as you doing your best Mean Girls impression. How DARE I have input actually germane to a discussion where your brilliant rhetorical strategy of pretending not to know what words mean was totally just about to put those libtards in…

Honestly, wouldn’t have given it any thought until you decided to leave a salty reply to my comment.

Ironically, it’s whay reminds me we’re all just people, in it together

Oof, this was a painful read. Stuff’s getting closer to proverbial home every day.

Because unions organized on the Industrial model (read: Not the goddamn AFL) include workers across geographic and professional lines. In the words of my dearest friend at SEIU (“ones I wasn’t banging” category, anyway) “si se the fuck puede because of that right there!”