👹📉🌎 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.
i guess i'm missing what's capitalist about forcing your employer to pay more (at the expense of the nation) instead of just looking for new work
They are not forcing, they are negotiating their future wages, similar to how you do when you want a raise from your boss. They just do it collectively and bring in lawyers (that are paid for by their dues).
I feel that we are missing the point here, the dock workers aren't the bad guys here. They followed the rules set up between the employers and employees. They use a five year contract that they bargain to get, and Maersk has not even come to the table to negotiate.
The raise they are asking for isn't instant, but a series of raises spread out every year over the five year contract. At thirteen percent inflation, this doesn't seem out of bounds as it appears with a cursory look.
The big thing that gets me is the timing of this strike in relation to the election coming up in a month. That's what we should be looking into.