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I don't believe that we'll ever know precisely why and how this happened. However, my best guess is that the general public is uneducated and brainwashed by the media.
This one depends on which state you live in.
This one has been going on for a long time. My best guess is that the rich and powerful want to become more rich and powerful.
The billionaire oligarchs that are profiting from this have to paint it as such to get all the young people to participate.
The oligarchs are diseased dragons lying atop mountains of gold (see J.R. Tolkien). They don't care about the earth or any life on it. The bottom line for them is power/money.
So, why aren't more citizens trying to change this?
Could be several reasons. Most people aren't aware. Some people don't care. There are probably more reasons.
To add one, have fun going to that rally when you are living paycheck to paycheck, working long hours with much exhaustion.
And if you did eke out the time to go do something, and get detained and prevented from coming back to work in time, you’ve lost your job. And your meager healthcare. Soon your home if you can’t bounce into another job.
That kind of living keeps people afraid of peeking outside the box.
Thank you for this. Would this be the case if more of the workers joined together or would they just fire them all? That's not sarcastic, I'm curious.
Firstly, such unity would be hard to organize. Work culture down on the lower rungs where there would be people wanting change, are drowned in a conflict culture. Don’t talk about your wages. Unions are evils. You are Replaceable. The threat of termination is welded like a cudgel. One of my previous jobs had a point system. If you were late, point. Called out without enough sick hours and a doctor’s note? Point. Missed a shift for any reason and didn’t call in? 4 points. 4 points was terminated.
Would they actually follow through with it? A previous manager I’ve had absolutely would. Snow? Late? Should have shoveled your way over sooner. He changed someone’s schedule and they didn’t notice, failed to appear. Arguments were made, there was an appeal system after all to make it fair, right? They compromised on keeping the guy at 3 points. He spent the next while looking for a new job because he knew he was one mistake away from unemployed.
Would they fire the whole team for organizing? I think so. I think they’d quickly offer to re-hire their favorites while they picked up new blood but they’d do it. Everyone would be back on probation and back in line.
Another company taking over the country no longer has a fresh meat butcher department because they wanted to unionize years ago. Company made an example of them nationwide and now just does factory meat.
This is wrong. You maybe right, but it's just wrong. Thank you for the enlightenment.