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We all know the inflation is just an excuse, because it's literally a creation of fractional reserve banking and fiat currency. Corporations do it all the time. They get around price gouging because they can hide behind "inflation", which is a load of BS. Yes, inflation exists in our current system but conniving companies and individuals take advantage of that to screw everyone else over. It's the most un-American thing I can possibly think of.

Yes, we have a right to call them on their selfishness. They, like leaders and anyone in infrastructure, have a responsibility to the entire country. They have a responsibility and a direct impact. If they don't want people to call them out for being selfish, greedy individuals, then they have two choices: stop trying to extort the entire country for a freaking 77% wage increase (from their already sizable current wage), or find another job.

They are not the victims. Not even remotely close. They "postponed" the strike until next January because they realized the sheer amount of people that would despise their guts for their actions.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

IMO if they hated their pay rate so much they should have qust quit and go find another job where the wages are better, i bet some did tho, but you won't hear about that because it's not political ammunition

having a shortage of workers in the industry would have forced the wage prices to be adjusted upwards anyway... if it actually was needed

and that also brings up the point that everyone's wage slides down against inflation anyway, and this is by design for both the banks and for political ends (maintaining high wages for the incumbency) and the strikes are pretty much the incumbency

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Silberengel 1y ago

Logistics adding a bunch of workers during Corona and now the companies are all trying to downsize.

Silberengel 1y ago

Same with production. Some of the factories are running at sub-50% capacity, and they can't go much below that without turning off the line, which is catastrophic.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

yeah, the elephant in the room is the debased currency and the gaggle of ghouls who benefit from this

Silberengel 1y ago

Unwinding a bubble caused by money-printing always requires an economic decline. The cure for high prices being high prices.

Appears that labor was also unsustainably overpriced.

MichaelJ 1y ago

My understanding is that the workers' pay is falling relative to inflation, and their employers are still posting record profits. The shipping industry isn't struggling, so the dockworkers are demanding a share of those profits.