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Exactly

Underpaying cops is what leads to Uvalde. Have high standards, throw the fuckin book at cops who abuse their power, and pay the rest of them properly. Cops, teachers, construction, bus drivers, all the people who make things operate should get paid a fuckin living wage, and the jobs that are skilled in addition (I.e. most of those) should be able to demand a higher wage and limit the people who’re allowed to do it to the people who can do it properly.

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FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

all the people who make things operate should get paid a fuckin living wage

Agreed. Unfortunately, it’s just not going to happen in America. This entire country is founded on the principle of extracting as much value from labor as possible without compensating them fairly.

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- mozz@mbin.grits.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The best place to live I have ever been aware of in history was the US during the post-labor-movement environment of the 1940s through 1970s (for the white people). We just gotta have a second one of those that’s capable to demand that again, and extend it to all races.
  
  Nothing’s inherently wrong with the US governmental system; the economic system just tends to get out of whack (and also distort the government along with everything else) if there isn’t a strong labor movement keeping it the fuck in check.
  
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  - ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    the US during the post-labor-movement environment of the 1940s through 1970s
    
    Uh, there might have been something else going on during that time period besides the labor movement - like a war and the consequent near-destruction of the rest of the industrialized world.
    
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  - FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    if there isn’t a strong labor movement keeping it the fuck in check.
    
    Agreed.
    
    Maybe the best thing about how awful the last two presidents have been for working people is that unions had to become stronger and more aggressive by necessity, and they did.
    
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    mozz@mbin.grits.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Kinda had a feeling that’s where you were going with that
    
    Speaking as someone who actually supports unions and working class wages and things that help them, please back up what you’re saying
    
    Like this or this
    
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