LONG BEACH, California — Crane operators who belong to a powerful union and earn up to $250,000 a year transferring containers from ships to trucks are worsening the supply chain crisis that threatens Christmas by goofing off on the job, frustrated truckers told the Washington Examiner.
I used to not understand the craze for just in time inventory. It seemed really fragile. Now I realize it was just trying to grab every penny, and was based on the assumption that workers absolutely could not throw a wrench in the system.
Management's job is not to make a profit. Management's job is to increase profits.
It's a never-ending cycle. They never get to a point where they say, "whew, done!" It's cut here, cut there, and sooner rather than later they cut too much and problems begin. They institutionally can't stop doing it, though. It's who they are.
So there never really is an end of history. They pretended the class struggle was over, or even acted like it never existed at all, and then they intensified it.
These people suck.
The End of History is not the end of change but the destruction of the historical record.
Capitalist Realism is about destroying the idea that there was ever a better way to live.
Capitalists love to put themselves at the total mercy of others in order to make a penny, whether that's the U.S. or Chinese governments, or their own workers (not that I have a problem with this exactly, but it's probably not exactly what I would do)