Imagine two football teams playing on Sunday afternoon. Team A has high tech protective gear, water as they need it, the referees are in their back pockets and they are allowed to play with 14 players on the field. Meanwhile, team B has no gear at all, they are not allowed to drink any water during the game, they’re blindfolded and they can only have 9 players on the field at any one time. Obviously team A will route team B every time no matter how good the players on the disadvantaged team are.
The scenario I painted above doesn’t happen in the NFL but it sure happens ALL THE TIME between workers and corporations. The advantages that corporations have over their employees is actually a thousand times more insidious than the one leveraged by team A. Corporations dictate all the terms and employees have been rendered powerless and are nothing more than indentured servants of CEOs—workers’ rights has been neutered.
It was not always like this, there was a time during the first half of the 19th century when workers enjoyed some level of parity with corporations. That was back when unions were a big part of America’s landscape; if companies like Ford Motor Company or Union Pacific Railroad tried to ride roughshod over their workers, unions would call a strike and the targeted businesses would come to a screeching halt. During the 1950’s, the average CEO was paid about 20 times the typical worker’s pay. Labor was not dictated to, they were able to push back and dictate terms as needed...continued
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