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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
Individuals are good.

Groups of people are shit.

Organized groups of people will always revert to the mean of being shit.

Unions are great in theory, hell I’m not even against them, but they will devolve into corrupt bureaucracy, like every shitty group of people.
gpt
Unions are needed when you have shitty owners/supervisors. The problem is those shitty owners are more likely to spend money to fight the union then to spend money on improving conditions/wages. So the union then needs money and bureaucracy to fight back. It's a vicious cycle. If owners would just invest in their employees and work environment this kind of shit wouldn't be needed. But as someone who used to travel for a living, I can say the vast majority of machine shops around North America are shitholes that I would never want to work in. Every union shop I went to was a good place to work, and there were a few non-union shops that were good places. But there were just so many shithole companies with awful air quality and helicopter supervisors out the ass.