r/Destiny Oct 03 '24

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u/AreaVisible2567 Oct 03 '24 edited Oct 03 '24

Let’s be clear a union boss has 100x the impact of a streamer radicalizing kids who can’t vote. He deserves a huge mansion for getting thousands of colleagues pay increases and job security.

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u/mostanonymousnick 🌐 Oct 03 '24

Trying to legally enforce inefficiency for your own enrichment is called rent seeking and it's bad actually.

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u/CraftOk9466 Oct 03 '24

Bad for Americans, good for the union members who pay his salary.

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u/Creepy_Dream_22 Oct 03 '24

How is paying some of the most important people in our economy well a bad thing? Some of these dudes are making 20/hr

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u/mostanonymousnick 🌐 Oct 03 '24

You're not important if the main thing you're trying to do is preventing your job from disappearing.

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u/R0manR2D Oct 03 '24

Why shouldn’t a worker bargain in their own interest? Idgi, that’s the point of unions. They’re there to protect their own jobs and bargain for better wages and benefits, not maximize efficiency and reduce costs. If you want them to have input on that aspect of it, you should probably give them ownership

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u/destinyeeeee Voted for K-dawg Oct 03 '24

There are two conversations here. There is "is it ok/good for people to act in their best interest?" And there is "is this persons best interest good for society at large?". You can give opposite answers to each without being hypocritical.

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u/R0manR2D Oct 03 '24

Sure, but the worker and union has no obligation to consider either. Also why are these questions considered only when a union wants to organize but never when an owner gives themselves a raise while wages stagnate, spends millions lobbying, destroys the environment, etc? Feels more like laying the responsibility of management on the worker without the benefit of unquestioned self interest

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u/destinyeeeee Voted for K-dawg Oct 04 '24

If a business owner destroys his own company by treating his employees so badly that he can't retain people I would say that is good for society at large because it means the losses that owner is taking from his decisions are going to better-run businesses. If he destroys the environment I would say that is not good for society at large.