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simianwordstoday at 8:45 AM5 repliesview on HN

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arrrgtoday at 8:48 AM

It‘s the exact opposite of selfish. It’s solidarity and efforts to denigrate solidarity and lift up stories about selfishness as the only important thing are the thing that keeps unions down.

Workers working together in solidarity is the right approach to get more power in the lopsided power dynamic between owners and workers. Owners have too much power, workers too little. Solidarity is a path towards fixing that.

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chpatricktoday at 8:50 AM

That's like saying not wanting to work 14 hours a day in a coal mine is selfish because it's at the expense of global prosperity.

gbanfalvitoday at 8:55 AM

“Global prosperity” is a good one.

How is global prosperity achieved? Business owners get all the profits of our labor and maybe some of it trickles down? Workers get “prosperous” on crumbs?

I’ll be expectantly awaiting for my prosperity in the mail.

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irl_today at 8:47 AM

I think this may be a US thing, in the UK at least unions work to promote solidarity.

babagan0ushtoday at 8:52 AM

this comment is satire right?