👹📉🌎 45,000 Dock Workers From Maine to Texas Go on Strike — Nation Braces for Inflation Spike and Supply Chain Chaos — Experts Warn U.S. Faces $5 Billion Loss a Day 👹📉🌎
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💸 ECON COLLAPSE ⌛️
I see a lot of fake capitalists here lately; complaining about what others are able to make, not regarding the conditions and circumstances of those making said money.
In a capitalist system you make what the market will bear. Why not complain about some basketball or football player making tens of millions of dollars? Because they get paid by what they bring to the game. Same thing here
nobody's complaining about how much they make. it's the fact that they're holding the nation hostage in order to make more. that's not capitalism. if their jobs are too dangerous for the pay, they should find new ones.
If they can "hold the nation hostage" I guess their jobs are pretty important to the economy.
They have been in negotiations for about a year. All the other shippers are willing to pay what they are asking for, only Maersk (the biggest shipper) has been holding out. These are foreign companies trying to dictate to Americans.
From what I've gathered, the biggest sticking point is automation and not wages. And yeah, Maersk is behind wanting to be able to use automation. It's probably necessary to stay competitive. Here's an article from July that somewhat addresses that: https://gcaptain.com/growing-threat-of-strike-looms-over-atlantic-and-gulf-coast-ports/