The coal miners' solution was to get a bunch of guns and/or gasoline, and either pump bullets in the bosses' house, or to torch it with gasoline. Usually both.
That was responded to by bringing in the Pinkertons (private military), along with the US military. These got horrifically bloody.
And it got to a point, that by the 1920's, the USA had a strong representation of US Communist Party. 1927 really cemented that they were right in the long run. However, FDR sold the Communists out with "labor reforms" that paled in comparison to what the Communists wanted.
Now, FDR's reforms lasted until the late 60's and 70's. Capital was able to get enough property and money, that they ended up *buying* the governmental reforms one politician at a time.
Well, perhaps heads will have to roll again, to reset Capital. They're not going to willingly cede property/money/power. And this time, they bought government. And it's obvious that the NLRB and the DoL is going to do diddly. But whatever it is, I hope it's peaceful. But knowing labor history through the ages and US specifically, it will be anything but.
There was serious labor abuse in past years, and capital doesn't have as much power in the new info-WFH-open source economy. Mineral rights and office space and expensive yearly software support contracts are gone. Stop waiting on government regulators for action on white collar issues.
How does that relate to capital and jobs? Unlike physical mining and physical manufacturing, capital is not a gating feature of bits and bytes tech startups.
We saw violent destruction during covid lockdowns by BLM. What did that accomplish?
Does 'tech' just mean software to you? like what about 95% of the economy, you need capital even for ebikes
> We saw violent destruction during covid lockdowns by BLM. What did that accomplish?
I am not spokesperson for BLM, and not from US.
But UK had similar riots when the Government made a pledge not to raise univeristy fees, and in the first 3 months they raised them, and then killed a student at a protest. So protests turned into riots.
Iam not sure whats new here, we knew for thousands of years -
You fuck around and piss off like a million people, eventually you are gonna find out.
Saying that capital doesn't have as much power in the new economy is bullshit.
The WFH thing is the only maybe, but you see how companies don't want that? It is much more about control than performance, as is usually the case with Capital.
The coal miners' solution was to get a bunch of guns and/or gasoline, and either pump bullets in the bosses' house, or to torch it with gasoline. Usually both.
That was responded to by bringing in the Pinkertons (private military), along with the US military. These got horrifically bloody.
And it got to a point, that by the 1920's, the USA had a strong representation of US Communist Party. 1927 really cemented that they were right in the long run. However, FDR sold the Communists out with "labor reforms" that paled in comparison to what the Communists wanted.
Now, FDR's reforms lasted until the late 60's and 70's. Capital was able to get enough property and money, that they ended up *buying* the governmental reforms one politician at a time.
Well, perhaps heads will have to roll again, to reset Capital. They're not going to willingly cede property/money/power. And this time, they bought government. And it's obvious that the NLRB and the DoL is going to do diddly. But whatever it is, I hope it's peaceful. But knowing labor history through the ages and US specifically, it will be anything but.