The conflict between Swedish unions and Tesla heated up on Friday as a supplier of critical components joined in a sympathy action to get the electric car maker to sign a collective bargaining agreement for its Swedish workers.
It’s funny. A rich company owner can do whatever they want, primarily by wielding the power that comes with having oodles of excess money. They could decide to shut down a factory, change rules to make people’s lives hell, do all sorts of things that are clearly coercive or arbitrary and people will just shrug and say “It’s their money, and it’s not illegal.”
But the second a bunch of workers get together and decide to wield the very double edged sword of foregoing their meager wages, i.e. to exercise their right in a free market to work or not work, people come out of the woodwork to complain that it is destroying the economy, that it is thuggish, that it is collusion and the end of free society. I guess poor people getting screwed over is just part of the plan, when the rich are inconvenienced it’s suddenly a major problem that must be dealt with forcefully.
It’s funny. A rich company owner can do whatever they want, primarily by wielding the power that comes with having oodles of excess money. They could decide to shut down a factory, change rules to make people’s lives hell, do all sorts of things that are clearly coercive or arbitrary and people will just shrug and say “It’s their money, and it’s not illegal.”
But the second a bunch of workers get together and decide to wield the very double edged sword of foregoing their meager wages, i.e. to exercise their right in a free market to work or not work, people come out of the woodwork to complain that it is destroying the economy, that it is thuggish, that it is collusion and the end of free society. I guess poor people getting screwed over is just part of the plan, when the rich are inconvenienced it’s suddenly a major problem that must be dealt with forcefully.