• Garbanzo@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    You know what, let’s do it. These fuckers apparently need a reminder that the alternative to unions and the NLRB is sabotage, riots, bombings and murders.

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      9 months ago

      Only now, the police are armed with tanks. I don’t think this will end well…

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        You can’t violence your way into efficient human labor without repealing the 13th Amendment.

        Let’s see if the SCOTUS says that the slavery clause only applies to individual people that congress specifically designates as free, a la the wholly made up rules on the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment.

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          I’d like to agree with you, but I’d like to note that the 13th amendment of the US constitution specifically states slavery is allowed as a punishment for a crime.

          So all you need to do is manufacture laws which make something common criminal and put heavy sanctions on it.

          Like say… draconian drug laws around cannabis, or making abortion carry the same sentences as murder. Criminalising trans healthcare. Three strike laws in which you can sentence someone to prison for life for stealing $14.

          https://law.utexas.edu/humanrights/projects/legalized-slavery-in-the-united-states-implemented-through-the-justice-system/

          Thats how the US subsidises labour. Enslaved prisoners.

          So you can violence your way into efficient human labour without repealing the 13th amendment. Perhaps there’s a point at which it won’t work anymore, but seems to have worked fine for the past 50-70 years or so

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            I’d make the argument that slavery provides a higher quantity of workers, but since it’s against the workers’ wills, it is not as efficient (units of work per unit of time).

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        They gonna shoot people when production goals aren’t met? I work with several people who are really good at sandbagging and blaming the equipment.

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    Upset by the surge in union drives …

    Poor babies. I’ve worked in a lot of places. I’ve never yet worked at, knew someone who worked at, or heard of a corporation that has a union that didn’t “earn” the union by persistent and blatant worker abuse.

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    Sooo, they want the crazy apes with opposable thumbs and the ability to persistence hunt any animal alive to band together and hunt them until they run over a cliff?

    Because that sounds like a good plan at this point.

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      In the country where pretty much anyone can legally purchase a firearm, as well. This will end well, surely.

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    Guess Starbucks ditched the “woke” mask altogether, since people saw it slipping and noticed their product is subpar, too.

      • Uriel238 [all pronouns]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        I can see the confusing jungle law like frontier justice is a term used for the lawlessness of the wilderness. If tiger is hungry and can overpower you, tiger eats you.

        In this case, the labor force rises up like zombies and tears upper management apart, or feeds them into the machines, or beats them with big wrenches, if history tells. They may put it off by hiring strikebusters and police with dogs. The bloodier it starts, the bigger the fire.

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    “We’ll have the law of the jungle, the law of the streets,” King said. “It will be who has the most power. It’s potential for chaos.”

    So the Supreme Court is definitely going to be in favor of this.

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    “Law of the jungle” you mean, like in places where the law isn’t enforced and rich people just cruising by can be randomly mugged and shot by gangs?

    Aaaaah, lol no they won’t be the cartel leaders in this analogy, corporations would be the pray to people desperate and with nothing to lose.

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    Back in Lincoln’s day, the Republicans really were about ‘trickle up’ economics. Henry Ford paid people enough to buy his cars. Now it’s “I can pay half the working class to kill the other half.”