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UAW, 1937: Instead of you paying him, he pays you (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 10 months ago by cyu@sh.itjust.works to c/unions@lemmy.ml
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[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 41 points 10 months ago

Damn that goes hard

[-] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 66 points 10 months ago

Dudes in '37 were willing to burn down the fucking buildings with the ownership locked inside, dudes today wanna simp for the owners and tell them it's ok that they treat them like shit.

[-] underisk@lemmy.ml 29 points 10 months ago

Business owners back then got military support to kill striking workers so the stakes were generally pretty high. When bosses start calling in drone strikes on picket lines maybe we’ll start seeing less love for the boot.

[-] Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

Business owners also have knowledge and experts on the last hundred years of business to know how to handle this. They know being too hard will cause unrest and revolt. You slowly turn up the heat to cook the workers.

[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I can tell you I've been feeling the heat for years and it enrages me that others don't.

Streets should be on fucking fire but instead we have people praising the system that fucks them

[-] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 17 points 10 months ago

bUt tHe EcOnOmY

[-] thefartographer@lemm.ee 33 points 10 months ago

"Where did you get the machines?"
"My daddy fucked over his fellow investors and his daddy was a slumlord!"

[-] Acters@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Owning the means of production is to take ownership.
Look up "owning the means of production" and "the bourgeoisie" Excerpt from wikipedia: "In a capitalist society, the bourgeoisie, or the capitalist class, is the class that owns the means of production and derives a passive income from their operation. Examples of the capitalist class include business owners, shareholders and the minority of people who own factories, machinery and lands." "If you can't beat them, join them"
Sun tzu's Art of War, Attack by Stratagem: "In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them."

Unfortunately it has statements that most are going fall into: "If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."
And
"if quite unequal in every way, we can flee from him."

This is because you stand no chance and will only be able to observe; so it is best to create distance instead of fighting.

[-] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

This can be applied to landlords as well.

this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2023
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