> Workers started unionizing, getting raises & taking advantage of a tight labor market to get a slightly better deal

> The ruling class freaked, now the Fed is engineering a recession ostensibly to get inflation under control, but it functions to destroy the growing power of labor.

> Capitalism needs a reserve army of labor to discipline and threaten active labor, and to be able to easily and quickly replace uppity workers with ever-more desperate people who will work for less and under worse conditions out of extreme precarity & fear of total immiseration.

  • MaxOS [he/him, any]
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    2 years ago

    ah sweet, man-made recession beyond our comprehension

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        There's a lot of reasons I love my dear sweet mother and one of the trivial ones is that she hates the voice acting and most of the characters on Family Guy. The only 2 she likes are Brian and Stewie. She absolutely despises Peter and Lois. She basically boycotted watching TV after dinner with my dad if he threw on Family Guy and it worked.

        Edit: Also, aside from my brother, she's the most lefty of my immediate family. She lets me rant about Capitalism when I visit.