alt Hacker NewsThe Gilded Age didn’t just “pass”. It was ended by strong unions and antitrust legislation (and enforcement). Passivity will kill us if we let the oligarchs have their way. Hope is not a plan. Appeasement will have no more success than it did in WWII.
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TheOtherHobbes • yesterday at 8:41 PM
The default oligarch orientation is to treat workers as slaves to the maximum possible extent.
Firefights with guns, hand-to-hand violence, and real deaths were needed to give unions the leverage they had.
For some reason this history isn't taught in schools.
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The long arm of history bends towards progress. Not because progress happens spontaneously, but because people bend it