• sour
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    2 years ago

    do you use an iphone

    you can make a similar argument for slavery

    you dont want the government…

    triangle shirtwaist fire ._.

    do the people who don’t like government regulations know how working conditions were before government regulations

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      Advances were made and sustained principally through labor organization, not government regulations.

      Much of the manipulation in the presentation from PU is based on constructing a false dichotomy between organization through either private business versus central government.

      A common tactic is to bait an antagonist into attacking private business, but then shifting from a defense of business to a criticism of government. It is employed by proponents of marketism, and commonly involves insertion into the discussion, often as a straw man, the Democratic Party or the Soviet Union.

      Such proponents often respond poorly to suggestions about cooperative organization, or to reminders over the natural tendency of business to seek increasing protection from the state.

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      It’s a matter of perspective. It doesn’t look so bad when you’re not the one doing the working.