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That's what they just said.
If you're an obscenely wealthy ghoul who profits off the suffering of everyone who has less money than you, then yes. In all other cases, absolutely the fuck not.
So you'd be happy if all the cops, auto workers, teachers, nurses, firefighters, etc. quit? You'd rather have massive and continuous societal upheaval than workers collectively bargaining for the right to make a decent living doing their jobs? I'd rather have a functioning society, personally, and that's why I support unions and you should too.
Unions are labor cartels. They drive up the cost of goods and services.
Then why does a Big Mac cost almost the same at a unionized McDonald's in Denmark as it does at a non-unionized one in Tennessee? I mean, I guess anything is possible when you just lie, but a lot of things become a lot clearer once you acknowledge reality.
Now make the same argument for manufacturing in the US versus Vietnam
You know that song "Think About It" by Flight Of The Conchords? "They're turning kids into slaves just to make cheaper sneakers, but what's the real cause? 'Cause the sneakers don't seem that much cheaper. Why are we still paying so much for sneakers when you got 'em made by little slave kids? What are your overheads?"
Funnily enough, I used to work in a running shoe store, and Jemaine is actually 100% right. Nike, Asics, Brooks, Adidas, most of them mostly manufacture in southeast Asia, or at least did at the time and probably still do. Nike has famously had their name attached to the word "sweatshop" on multiple occasions. Meanwhile, New Balance manufactures in the US. Prices are similar, quality is basically the same, personally I don't get on with either of them as well as I get on with Altra but that's beside the point. Nike's CEO makes like 100x what NB's does, which means NB manages to match Nike on price and quality with a much more equitable pay structure and manufacturing in the US.
If your metric for the economy is anything other than how much money the CEO makes, then New Balance is the clear winner. And I just want to note how fucked it is that I'm looking at a CEO making almost 300k a year, who also happens to be kind of a right wing dipshit, and saying "yeah, he seems equitable" just because I have to compare him to one making 32 mil.
Another example is that Orbea bicycles, which are literally made by a worker-owned co-op in Mondragon in Spain, with a lot (though admittedly not all) of their manufacturing either in house or just over the border in Portugal, compete and win in top-level racing, so the quality is obviously there, with prices that match or beat ones set by giants like Trek, Specialized, Cannondale, or, well, Giant, all of whom do most of their manufacturing in Taiwan (to be fair, Giant is a Taiwanese company, but Trek, Spesh, and 'Dale are all American and, weirdly, Giant handles a lot of their manufacturing).
If you can't show me that I'm wrong, then sure, pivot to something else again. But the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting something to change. Vaas from Far Cry 3 taught me that.
Buddy I'm not reading all that.
Then don't start shit you can't finish.
You could tell the UAW the same thing. They're getting their jobs automated 😂
If their jobs were that easy to automate, do you really think the automakers would just be threatening it? Do you know literally a single thing about economics?
Elon already started automating their jobs. Nice try, troll.
I can find no sources on this that aren't just Elon tweeting about it, and Elon's tweets are about as reliable as a gingerbread space station. If his tweets are enough for you to believe it, then no wonder you're also wrong about everything else you've said.