So a lot of people blame the worker's union for Hostess going out of business. This despite their dropping sales (because fewer people find "cancer cakes" appealing for their children) and despite CEOs cutting their worker's pay while raising their own salaries up to 300%. Yet with all this going on, the brown-noses-to-anyone-with-money on the right are blaming the unions for "not letting the company run efficiently." This viewpoint is only made possible by the pathological levels of pathetic boss-worship that our country has adopted lately.
Even if I were dumb enough to believe in trickle-down economics, I still
wouldn't blame the hostess thing on the unions for "not letting the
company run efficiently." Cutting your employees' pay is NOT
"efficiency" if you're simultaneously tripling your own pay. It's theft.
What these people are essentially saying is that the hostess workers
should simply sit there and let their bosses steal from them. If they
don't, they're being "ungrateful" for the jobs they've been "provided"
(nevermind that a job is only good if you get PAID for it, and that the
workers are earning that money by, you know, WORKING, so it's not like a
job is a fucking charity donation).
This is such medieval peasant/lord bullshit that I can't believe anyone
is spineless enough to condone it. I refuse to revere someone, no matter
how transparently irresponsible, dishonest, and shitty their behavior
is, simply because of their status as a rich CEO.
They sound like loyal slaves berating a disobedient fellow slave: "What are you
doing? Don't upset your master! If you upset your master then it's YOUR
fault when he beats you!" Pathetic.
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