In the 50's the US was in the "Golden Age" of labor...unions were at their strongest...and yet why just a few decades later, the whole thing came crashing down? Answer: The "capital" in Capitalism. When you have an owner class, the struggle will never end; if employees are paid more, the employer will ask more, and so on and so forth until the Unions go away OR the Unions become corrupt and the employees are overworked and "overpaid." What we really need is the next step in labor, that is, WORKER OWNED businesses. It will force intelligent decisions be made about how to treat workers, how much to pay workers, and how much to reinvest in the company. Labor Unions are the fantasy of the age of Marx, most of the gains that were imagined with this method are already realized...we need to march forward.
In the more distant future, we need to look even further beyond, towards a society where we don't work for money but as they say in Star Trek, "we work to better ourselves, and the rest of humanity."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HH9Of4OVaTE
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