Yeah Labor Day was about a bunch of people who went on strike to get better conditions. But the factory owner was having none of that so he used his political connections to have federal agents and the US Army to shoot them. No joke that’s literally what happened; 30 people died so we could have a day off and a weekend of sales.
Actually, Labor Day is the celebration of over a century and a half of a privleged minority using property destruction, intimidation, torture, murder and, oh yeah, the mob against OTHER WORKERS, to carve out a monopoly for themselves so they could gouge consumers.
Unions never got anything honestly, every benefit they got they got at the expense of someone who also wasn’t rich. Every benefit they supposedly got for others was just a means of outlawing competition, again for their own benefit. Everything you think you know about unions is a self-serving myth they’ve built for themselve over the years to justify their looting and murder.
Don’t read about what they said they were doing. Go research yourself what they actually did.
Labor unions were class warfare, but civil war within the working class. In the entirity of the American Labor movement, not a single rich person or executive was killed by union members but several thousands poorer (and about 2/3rds non-white) workers were.
If Labor unions were class struggle between rich and working class, they’d kill the rich. But they didn’t. Quite the opposite, the rich weren’t bothered at all and at many times, the unions actively made them richer by using the union’s political power to government money and action to the unionized big business (e.g. GM bailout.)
Instead, the rich, and the industrial jobs they create with capital, were a resources that workers fought over like medieval warriors fought over control of peasants and farming land. The vast majority of violent incidents between authorities or “Pinkertons” and “Company Goons” occurred when the union members attempted to mass murder competing workers. The losers, who often didn’t even know there was a war on, got called “scabs” and “class tratiors” and went down the memory hole while the winners got a holiday in their honor.
Of course, the winners always are the virtuous ones aren’t they? The words “vile” and “villian” come from the Latin “vill” meaning a farming town. A “vile villain” then, was a humble farmer who spent all his life growing food and hurting no one.
Meanwhile, a “nobel” was nothing but a member of heriditary caste of killers who murdered each other and the “villians” incessently over petty land disputes, or worse, “honor” and “glory.”
The murderes had the money to hire the bards and literate priest (or knives to hold to their throats) and the farmers did not, so the murdereous “nobels” became the good guys in history and their name synomous with virtue.
The unions likewise had the money and political power that only a violent monopoly can bring so they got the same deal… and a holiday.
If we reall wanted to celebrate the true spirit of Labor Day, we’d all go out an attack our most immediate economic competors as violently as possible and leave all consumers with no choice but to pay the winners price.
The shovel would have a much different use in the real Labor Day celebration.
some of them have with labor day sales. In fact, labor day sales are often used as a good alternative for black friday sales if you’re fine with keeping the gifts hidden for a few months.
Well, it’s the beginning of winter, and if you don’t start your christmas shopping at the beginning of winter, you’re probably going to find yourself buying last minute gifts before you know it.
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Sisyphus is happy.
I actually has a short laughing fit at that shove- I mean, present. Good show, old bean. Er, old bug.
I think Labor Day is about everything Mr Potter is not.
Yeah Labor Day was about a bunch of people who went on strike to get better conditions. But the factory owner was having none of that so he used his political connections to have federal agents and the US Army to shoot them. No joke that’s literally what happened; 30 people died so we could have a day off and a weekend of sales.
Actually, Labor Day is the celebration of over a century and a half of a privleged minority using property destruction, intimidation, torture, murder and, oh yeah, the mob against OTHER WORKERS, to carve out a monopoly for themselves so they could gouge consumers.
Unions never got anything honestly, every benefit they got they got at the expense of someone who also wasn’t rich. Every benefit they supposedly got for others was just a means of outlawing competition, again for their own benefit. Everything you think you know about unions is a self-serving myth they’ve built for themselve over the years to justify their looting and murder.
Don’t read about what they said they were doing. Go research yourself what they actually did.
Labor unions were class warfare, but civil war within the working class. In the entirity of the American Labor movement, not a single rich person or executive was killed by union members but several thousands poorer (and about 2/3rds non-white) workers were.
If Labor unions were class struggle between rich and working class, they’d kill the rich. But they didn’t. Quite the opposite, the rich weren’t bothered at all and at many times, the unions actively made them richer by using the union’s political power to government money and action to the unionized big business (e.g. GM bailout.)
Instead, the rich, and the industrial jobs they create with capital, were a resources that workers fought over like medieval warriors fought over control of peasants and farming land. The vast majority of violent incidents between authorities or “Pinkertons” and “Company Goons” occurred when the union members attempted to mass murder competing workers. The losers, who often didn’t even know there was a war on, got called “scabs” and “class tratiors” and went down the memory hole while the winners got a holiday in their honor.
Of course, the winners always are the virtuous ones aren’t they? The words “vile” and “villian” come from the Latin “vill” meaning a farming town. A “vile villain” then, was a humble farmer who spent all his life growing food and hurting no one.
Meanwhile, a “nobel” was nothing but a member of heriditary caste of killers who murdered each other and the “villians” incessently over petty land disputes, or worse, “honor” and “glory.”
The murderes had the money to hire the bards and literate priest (or knives to hold to their throats) and the farmers did not, so the murdereous “nobels” became the good guys in history and their name synomous with virtue.
The unions likewise had the money and political power that only a violent monopoly can bring so they got the same deal… and a holiday.
If we reall wanted to celebrate the true spirit of Labor Day, we’d all go out an attack our most immediate economic competors as violently as possible and leave all consumers with no choice but to pay the winners price.
The shovel would have a much different use in the real Labor Day celebration.
Tl;dr
The business of business is business. And business is good.
Necktie Bug here appears to be trying to turn Labor Day into Management Day.
I have never had a laborday off since entering the workforce..
I’m surprised the retailers haven’t picked up on this. Make it another “guilty holiday.”
some of them have with labor day sales. In fact, labor day sales are often used as a good alternative for black friday sales if you’re fine with keeping the gifts hidden for a few months.
September 2nd is practically Christmas season, right?
Well, it’s the beginning of winter, and if you don’t start your christmas shopping at the beginning of winter, you’re probably going to find yourself buying last minute gifts before you know it.
Christmas season? Try Easter.
This one was a HUGE winner for me
Seriously, how does anyone-regardless of age-not know BTO?
I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night
Alive as you or me . . .