Quote (Mangix @ Oct 29 2020 04:35pm)
Oh sorry, I didn't mean that directly at you. Its just you that I'm talking to, so I naturally used "you".
I think most people are encouraged to work and to produce when they exist under a system that immediately rewards them for their labor.
Like a worker at a pharma company doesn't get rewarded with the patent on a product they create, instead that goes to the CEO above them or to the company itself. (I'm not sure who gets it, but its not the person putting in the labor) Our current system encourages its people to do the bare minimum required to not be fired, so that they do not starve. I do not think this is a productive way forward.
Given that view I hold.
The workers are not compensated appropriately or not taken care of in many ways and thus unions exist as a bandaid on capitalism to stop them from being taken advantage of.
Which is why up until the jobs dropped out of America, a lot of people in manual labor industries were part of unions.
There is nothing inherently wrong with unions, only specific unions.
I would say during times of bad behavior by a union it is the responsibility of society, and more importantly the members of that union that care about it being around long term to oust these people.
If that becomes impossible the responsible members of it should remove themselves and form a new one.
I think we have the ability to be empathetic both publicly and privately. There is more than enough capital to go around.
Sorry I can't help but tangent every time I post because I love discourse lol. Feel free to only reply to the core point at the bottom.
Equity sharing has been a private corporate practice for years, that may give you some of what you're looking for.
I believe strongly that only through competition, and by rewarding that competition at a societal level, can we progress as a species. The competition needs to be fair (as fair as can be) and meritocratic, but there must be those above and others below. It's not a cruel reality of life, it is the preferred outcome.
I'm not sure that we have a plethora of public resources. Certainly, they won't be plentiful for long if we spend them irresponsibly and forget to reward the origin of that plenty. We to need to reward the producers, both large and small, in order to keep the engine going. We can spare for those who want to work but can't, but we can't afford to spare for those who can work but won't.