>>>Exactly.
>>>But you won't see that if people accept the con that they're lucky to have a job flipping hamburgers for $12/hour while people are buying condos in NYC for $20 million.
>>>That flipper is a victim of economic oppression.
>>>It's insane that there is no wage inflation here when the unemployment rate is at record lows.
>>>That could never have happened before the anti-labor actions started by Carter and Reagan and continued by every president since.
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>If by "anti-labor" you mean propserity for blue collar and unskilled labor, then there's willful blindness that free importation of effective slave labor is the biggest anti-labor policy in existence.
Disagree.
Southwest Airlines planes aren't piloted by immigrant slaves. They're piloted by non-union pilots who work for a fraction of what union pilots make.
Southwest didn't exist till Jimmy Carter passed legislation deregulating airlines.
Within a few years hundreds of thousands of high-paying union jobs were lost. Airlines like TWA, Pan Am, etc. disappeared.
The next time you're on an interstate road look at the names on the trucks. Most of them are No Names being driven by gypsy drivers working for peanuts - not immigrant slaves.
In 1975 you'd have seen names like Roadway, Yellow, etc, etc with trucks driven by well paid Teamster drivers. They've disappeared, thanks again to Jimmy Carter.
Nearly a million high paying teamster jobs were lost.

Was deregulation good overall? When you look at what it did to the middle class, I don't think so.

I watched my community being built.
Not a single union contractor was used.
That's the norm now in NJ.
That was unthinkable in 1970.




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>On the topic of minimum wages: I'll never agree that legislation can hold back the tide of economics and human behavior.

You can see it at work in the South here.
During the 1960's several southern states passed "Right to work" laws, which basically destroy the notion of a union shop.
Textile manufacturers who had funded the lobbying behind those laws owned unionized textile mills in New England and gradually moved all their mills to the south, effectively de-unionizing their operation with the complicity of the state legislatures.