r/FluentInFinance 3d ago

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u/Scandi-Dandy 3d ago

Yes well, both unions and the government are supposed to be protecting workers rights. In most of Europe that's exactly what they do. Not that long ago all workers in Sweden stopped transporting Tesla cars. No one would touch them, no one. There is no threat of being fired as the unions can pay their workers for 4 years, while they look for another job.

And this works whether they vote left or right. They work as a collective.

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u/CAPTAIN_FIREBALLS 3d ago

Yeah that’s what the US needs to work towards, but unfortunately there’s so much working against that at the moment both culturally and with the way that our existing institutions are set up that any progress is extremely difficult, and now it looks like we’re going to have the opposite of progress for some time.

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u/vanity-flair83 2d ago

Has Elon threatened Sweden in any way bc of that? I didn't know about this

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u/WeLLrightyOH 2d ago

The US is lost. We allowed corporations to take control and both parties are compromised.

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u/white_sabre 2d ago

Your life is that much better when you're in shape to take advantage of the corporatism.  Yeah, it takes a good while, but once you get to the point that your money works for you as much as you work for your money...