the only people against unions are ultra-rich

for everybody else unions are always net positive

hence unions should have overwhelming public support

but they don't

and this says a lot about our society in general

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you don't need an opinion in unions, we have enough data and history to make up a definitive mind

Private sector unions are good. Public sector unions? Not so much, imo.

Essential viewing.
What I love about this movie is that it shows the nuance that makes up the struggle.

Same with tax reform…there’s some weird mental gymnastics that encourage people to imagine themselves as rich. “When I’m rich I want the loopholes”

We fetishize conspicuous consumption and pecuniary emulation in the parlance of Thorsten Veblen. He wrote about it extensively in theory of the leisure class.

I took Labor Law in law school, and it's pretty devastating how much the protections of private sector unions have been eroded in the US

It's so bad that I don't think unions are necessarily the right approach for collective bargaining. The law just favors employers. 

Public sector is an entirely different mess