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  • You could name the main hurdle without becoming a tutor.

    Of course there are reasons like no time from working two jobs or union busting behavior as seen from Starbucks or Amazon.

    But that leaves enough workers who could run the union.

    The main problem is convincing all minimum wage workers to join the union. Somebody has to come up with the necessary communication strategy. Whoever can do that most likely doesn’t work a minimum wage job.



  • A bit outdated, but Trump is indeed aiming at the consumer to hit the tarket of bringing back production to the USA.

    https://unherd.com/2025/02/why-trumps-tariffs-are-a-masterplan/

    What doesn’t fit is that the elephant in the room, China, will still overtake the USA in the remaining technological areas with which the USA is maintaining its military lead.

    Why is the USA isolating itself? Even if Europe plays along and stays on the side of the USA, how is that enough to maintain the global lead?

    The context of Project 2025 suggests that this has been debated in depth by many think tanks. How are American billionaires going to succeed when the USA is retreating from the global trade that is creating prosperity for those who participate?









  • Haben die USA im 2. Weltkrieg auch mit GB gemacht. Das war zu erwarten. Ist halt ‘land lease’ und nicht ‘land gift’.

    Das interessante ist, dass das Narrativ weiterhin beim Angriff beginnt.

    Ebenfalls in diesem Sinne wurde Nulands Aussage von 2013 verwendet, wonach in den 22 vorangegangenen Jahren seit 1991 fünf Milliarden US-Dollar aus US-Steuermitteln für Demokratisierung, Wohlstand, Sicherheit und Demokratie in der Ukraine eingesetzt worden seien.

    https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Nuland

    Passend, dass die Tagesschau den mineral deal ein ‘Wirtschaftsabkommen’ nennt.

    Wie soll Demokratie bei uns funktionieren, wenn man internationale, aber auch nationale Politik nicht auf der zynischen Sachebene diskutieren kann, auf der sie gemacht wird?

    Schlussendlich erlaubt dies ein Framing durch die Medien, so dass die Oberschicht ihre Politik unhinterfragt umsetzen kann.


  • Instead of replying to each comment, one big reply here.

    Minimum wage works for jobs where people are underpaid because they outcompete each other and drive prices down. It’s essentially a forced union for unskilled workers which is fair because they don’t have the mental capacity to organize themselves.

    But listening closely to Roosevelt, ‘any right to continue’ means that those businesses that don’t supress the wages cease to exist. This ends poverty because those people become unemployed and thus don’t count as low income anymore.

    As long as there are illegal immigrants who earn less than legal residents, the minimum wage is not really the minimum wage. To be fair, illegal immigrants go to California, New York and Florida while states without own mimimum income laws are mostly southern states.

    The real probelm is https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_army_of_labour

    If there were enough jobs, there would be no competition to go below the poverty line.

    Additionally, the main problem must be the housing market. Create cheap housing and huge parts of the income don’t go to rent. It’s almost funny that the cheap workers who work in construction cannot build cheap housing for themselves, thanks to zoning laws.

    Overall, why should minimum wage work if it would be ridiculous to do that for comfortable wages? If there were a law prohibiting any job that doesn’t pay enough to own a house with pool, we wouldn’t expect that everybody would own such a house. We would expect that the majority of people would be unemployed. Why should that be different for lowpaying jobs?