unions

Incredibly well said. I find it hilarious when people talk about “company loyalty” when things like pensions are few and far gone, and companies are gutting benefits, fighting against raises, and generally treating all employees as expendable, then getting surprised when people don’t want to work for their pittances.

Once you stop working at a company, you get nothing from said company. Sure, some companies will match things like 401(k) contributions to an extent, but that’s purely only supporting you while you are employed there, and even that’s becoming less and less common.

Nowadays the only thing that can help employees are unions. But it’s sort of always been that way. Weekends? Unions. Annual cost of living raises? Unions. Not getting shot for walking off the job because you aren’t getting fairly compensated? Unions.

The hyper-capitalism that has permeated every single aspect of our daily lives from (ironically pension funded corporations) buying up swathes of houses before anyone is lucky enough to own them, to measuring every single market activity to ensure everything is priced to the extreme before they lose a drop of profit while every able bodied person is trying to provide for themselves or their families or even get a glimpse at something decent in an already bleak future is despicable.

We’re on a doomsday fast track, and the ones in charge of where we’re headed don’t give a shit, because they’re already planning on how they’ll make their escape, or at least ride it out in comfort and safety.