Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "Bhaskar Sunkara: Socialism and Communism | Lex Fridman Podcast #349" video.
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Hey @Hunterchuck - “doesn’t have all the answers… being humble… not lying in your face”
I never thought anyone way lying, but making a system where people can not attempt to live in 100% freedom (self sufficiency, take care of own needs, take care of own security) and voluntarily participate academically, is really awful.
If there is someone who should be able to personally volunteer in society, it SHOULD be the person who has it all together, because they solved problems many have not.
“doing away with capitalism” is really a nightmare. When people can not buy what they want, sell what they want, as long as there is no coercion / deception, everyone suffers, because there truly is no freedom.
Capitalism & Freedom was a great set of essays, that should be required reading for anyone getting out of middle school.
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@Hunterchuck - “not 100% free right now right?”
Yep… socialists censor what we want to say, under the direction of socialists in government. Sometimes the socialists virtually kill someone off, by removing virtual entity from virtual public forums.
Socialists weasel their way into everything, then apply principles of coercion & death ☠️ upon minorities. Socialists love the power of the Government Gun, to physically or virtually kill off those they do not like, or get in the way of their power.
“Take care of needs and security… privileged”
Everyone has this opportunity, unless they are compelled by socialists to remain in a contract which disadvantages them.
I have friends under Union contracts.
One lady will have to work for a certain number of years or lose all their retirement benefits, even under horrible working conditions. (For me, I gradually build up my retirement & it is portable, where I get it no matter if I am terminated or if I leave.)
The Union boss’s first job is to create a group of people which can be manipulated, then show the Boss’s value to an employer, then the Boss can keep the money 💴 flowing to the bank by sending a portion of the group’s wages to politicians to keep the Boss in a favorable legal position, when the workers are suffering & can’t escape without incredible detriment.
Unions are sexiest, using women unfairly.
“Working class constantly getting screwed over”
This is the result of unholy alliance between Unions & Politicians. (Poli-tic’s… multiple blood 🩸 sucking ticks 🕷️.)
Real wages went up when the supply of workers slowed. Real wages went down when the supply of workers increased.
Just look at the past 10 years. Union Bosses helped elect a government where workers were diluted, their wages were diluted, and there is no outcry against the workers getting screwed, because the executive politician of the current US government is in bed with big business, they want cheap labor, and the politician the Unions supported with workers wages 🩸opened the border to destroy worker wages and increase worker housing 🏠 & food 🥘 costs by creating a huge drain on those limited resources in an uncontrolled way! (ie number of government permitted southern border crossers have been roughly 2x the number of government permitted housing, creating inflation, destroying the real wages of workers.)
It is a form of National Socialist Fascism, or Socialist Communist gulags, which the Union Bosses control the workers to keep them on their concentration camps or forced work camps.
“workers wouldn’t feel the need to fight for Unionization”
Few fight for unionization in the 1st world, except for the extremely privileged (ie Starbucks employees recently) who already get a great wage for what they do, but have become complacent & greedy.
Once employees are in a Union, they are often screwed.
I have another friend, different Union, different locality of the US. She must work where she is at, and her health benefits will be bound to the locality where she is working. This means, when she retires, she can not move to a lower cost of living area. In the end, the Union screwed her, giving her a carrot 🥕 and guaranteeing her to a life of poverty in her retirement, and she did not realize that they would do that to her in her negotiated package.
“Capitalism has many problems and socialists point those problems out”
The only problem that Capitalism has is when Socialists figure a way to assume the power of the Government Gun and removes freedom of individuals.
In another region, my mother told me the story of watching when a particular Interstate Highway was being built, as trucks were lines up to deliver asphalt, they gave the Union reps $100 bills for each truck, for the privilege of delivering their asphalt load.
Did the Workers get that money 💰? Nope. They did not. The coffers of the Union Bosses were filled, so they could influence politicians.
“unsatisfied with an answer a socialist would give you”
Then it is likely because the socialist has not been around long enough to see how their actors corrupt the system, or they are one of those actors profiting from corrupting the system.
I personally suffered under unions, in my first job out of College. I was a contractor, servicing my employer renting space in a building where the dominate employer was a Union shop. I moved my PC from one desk to another. A Union Grievance was filed, the Union employees did not work for our company!
The Union boss tried to compel a different company, to file work requests, to be billed back to the primar company. Unthical. In the end, I set up a bank of computers 🖥️ on a table so the Union Workers could get their Union email, without asking them to move computers, and they stopped their issues. It was just another form of graft, sucking the blood 🩸 from another company.
In the end, the Union Bosses are leeches, sucking the blood 🩸 from the workers, indirectly through wage deductions, or directly through cash 💰 payments from the worker’s own pockets, and then leave the worker destitute when they can no longer work (retire.) Blood 🩸 Suckers 🦟 bosses.
“Fix the problem”
End the Unions, Union unholy alliance with rich politicians, Union graft, disemploy Union bosses, and give workers freedom to carry their retirement to where they want, including their health benefits accrued.
We have contract companies today, unions are obsolete with the way Union Bosses act like little Tzar’s controlling their serfs
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