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Originally Posted by Cuervo
I grew up in a poor Irish neighborhood in Queens with Harold, he was a friend of mine and a standup guy. As a New Yorker you learn to deal with the cards that are dealt to you.
Now I know there are many people on this site who hate unions, but what these people don’t realizes is that unions not only help their members, but also help nonunion members. When a union worker gets a raise, the non-union shop also gives a raise to their workers, either to keep the union out or to retain their workers. I represented my union for the last 5 years of my career and our union had a 3-year apprenticeship that was a must before you could take a job on your own. This was not only to make sure you were proficient but ensured the safety with people you were dealing with.
Automation is unstoppable and there is a good side and a not so good side. The goal of automation is to replace people and the very people who are champions of automations might find themselves unemployed one day. For those who are retired you are not spared, you see the smaller the workforce the less contributions into social security, inevitably forcing a reduction in benefits. I don’t have a solution, but someone better come up with one soon, AI is knocking at the door.
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The first problem is we seek perfect answers but there is no such thing. Far as social secuity it is a prime example of mismanagement. Originally when started there were, if, I recall my reading, 12 workers for everyone collecting. WE are actually the problem. A huge mass of people retiring and going through the system. Today there are like two people working for everyone collecting. Social secuity had the numbers. They spent our money to expand benefits for those before us. They had a lot coming in. Now it is our turn. We paid a lot we want ours.
Problem is we had no choice but to buy into the system. Private insurance would have been cheaper. Truly shocking reality. Our national debt. Social secuity holds 40% of it. Imagine financing an obligation with the obligation. It would be illegal for a company to do that. INFLATION is a slight of hand trick. We need more to pay inflated higher prices. We pay those higher prices with after tax money. People do not realize how much less they have even with the number going up.
Far as HATE, I do not hate Unions. I keep my HATE list as empty as possible so can give anyone or anything to make my list my full attention.