• Moyer1666
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    They better not intervene m, unless they’re going to compel UPS to meet the union’s demands

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        1 year ago

        I hope they strike anyway. I’m tired of this shit. Corporations are never held accountable

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        They kept working on it. Railroad workers got paid sick leave 6 weeks ago.

        Biden was trying to appease corpos, he was trying not to have inflation explode and kick of a recession. Restricted supply was one of the big drivers of inflation, and more of that had every economist freaked out.

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          and more of that had every economist freaked out.

          And? It isn’t like economics is a science or that economists are on our side. Almost all of them pushed for and apologize for the bailouts.

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            Social sciences are never perfect, but there is MORE than enough data points in the world to support the supply and demand model.

            Scarcity inflates prices. Humans have literally been documenting this economic phenomenon for over 2000 years.

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              I agree social sciences are not perfect but given that Economics isn’t a science I am not seeing the relevance. My brother-in-law is a Lincoln Park fan and I like beer. Do you really need a degree to mindlessly repeat whatever the banks want you to repeat to the middle class that bailed them out? Chatgpt can do it. If you study economics now they are falling over themselves begging for another bank bailout.

              Scarcity inflates prices.

              In that case asbestos insulated houses with lead paint must be increasing in value.

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                I’m referring to the scarcity of goods people want to and need to buy… asbestos is something people actively try to avoid.

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    Why would they? They’re a private company, the government has absolutely zero business interfering in a labor dispute with private companies, unless of course they want to acknowledge that they do have power over private businesses like these to regulate them. In which case they should fucking nationalize them and throw the execute board in jail.

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    I don’t think Biden will intervene in this case. It’s one company that’s going on strike, not a whole system of transportation. The economic impact will be significant but limited, as there are others that will pick up what slack they can.

    Of course, this means that to preserve the right to strike we need to break companies up so they’re not too big to fail.

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      I can tell you right now no can pick up the slack fedex maybe can take an extra 600k in the their system. Put it in perspective that’s the normal for the memphis night sort. It going to be very ugly.

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    The president should have nothing except an unofficial advisory role, at best, about any strike unless it is a total war situation. It is not a proscribed power.