Gary Whitta
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And so, of course, they're going to be adversarial.
And so, of course, forming a union, that's going to be interpreted, whether you want it to be or not, as kind of a declaration of war or hostility against your employer.
Because you're saying, well, we're forming a group that has fundamentally different priorities than yours.
We don't care about your shareholders.
We care about the workers.
And though they'll never say it, what the companies secretly believe is, well, we don't care about you.
You're just fucking drone disposable drones, you know, easily replaceable.
All we care about is, you know, enriching ourselves and our, and our rich pals.
And so those two things just don't, they can't exist together.
I mean, they somehow do in many cases, but this is why we always have strikes and issues and problems because these, you can't have big business without labor.
Right.
And businesses, you make more money when you, when you, when you treat labor worse and,
I'm not telling you.
This is new information.
look it drives me the corporate stuff there's a thing in cd you remember there's a line in cd hell about it like don't don't he says what can we do to keep you in the netflix family don't say that you're not a family you're a fucking corporation and that was the there was a line that had sitting around forever and i finally got using the shows like corporations love to pretend they're a family yeah until it's time to pay for their next stock buyback and then suddenly grandma's clearing out her fucking desk
yeah every time they they do not give a fucking they do not give a flying fuck about you and unions are the only shield against that right apes together strong right that's the only try and break the bundle of sticks yeah that's the apes together strong that's it that's the entire idea behind unions and it is one of the best ideas that human civilization has ever had without them it would be living in even more of a fucking dystopia than we are right now
Cause don't make no mistake.
We're in a fucking dystopia.
When is it going to, when is it going to, when are we going to get to that point where like it's, it's completely, it's fucking gone.
Like the ship is sailed.