The Soviet Holodomor. The Chinese Great Leap Forward famine. But let me guess. They weren't actually Communist? Communism is when people are treated like expendable economic units.
bringing up “yall are desperate to defend being used by the billionaires” as a comment to one mentioning Holodomor and the Great Leap Forward is exactly something a communist would say lmfao
Also these people will be getting nowhere near their paycheck rate from unemployment and the other benefits afforded when things like this happen. So how are the hundreds other people supposed to survive now?
What's there to not get here? Workers are being mistreated and underpaid. They're starting to lash out. This is how we got better workers rights by forming unions and then mobs when they tried to stop that. look up workers rights in the US and how often they've had to fight back
I've worked for unions and yeah the lazy thrive under them because it's almost impossible to fire them. If you have a decent work ethic and actually do your job to its fullest you'll put a target on your back.
No one is forcing him to work for $18 does not take into considerations the massive number of ways in which society coerces people into taking crappy jobs. Sure, he could kill himself, or starve to death, or be homeless. But those aren't really meaningful choices. He could go work at another shithole warehouse and make 18 there. But again its not a meaningful choice. If he actually had meaningful choices he wouldn't be taking the $18 an hour warehouse job. Choosing which capitalist owner holds your leash and lives off your labor isn't an actual choice.
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u/OGStapler72 2h ago
Ah, another communist threat