LibsEatPoop [any] to the_dunk_tank • edit-23 years agoThey’re going to engineer a recession.imagemessage-square51 fedilinkarrow-up1135file-text
arrow-up1135imageThey’re going to engineer a recession.LibsEatPoop [any] to the_dunk_tank • edit-23 years agomessage-square51 Commentsfedilinkfile-text
> 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.
minus-squareCardboard [he/him]hexbear7·3 years agoOnce the GOP is back in power, we'll probably see cuts to unemployment benefits as well. Seems like a matter of time after the stink raised about no one wanting to work. link
Once the GOP is back in power, we'll probably see cuts to unemployment benefits as well. Seems like a matter of time after the stink raised about no one wanting to work.