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Originally Posted by Birdman10687
I don’t agree with this, but that’s mainly from the standpoint of a sports journalist who avidly follows the NBA. Not as a communist lol.
But let’s just say I did agree. Is your point just that an assembly line worker can be easily replaced so that the union would get undermined since the owner could just replace everyone very easily?
I think your deep understanding of the NBA actually hinders you here a bit, but we’ll move it to the side
My point is that if you did agree then that is one of the conditions that would lead to a union being undermined. By itself it is not enough - you would also need a functionally endless supply of replacement level labor, which has almost never existed here in this country but could be provided by automation OR could be provided indirectly by automation as machines reduce the total demand for labor it will create a larger and larger portion of the population that want a job but can’t get one. At some point as the automation replacement “ceiling” for what workers can make and still be profitable and the standard of living “floor” of what workers should be paid continue to converge the two will eventually intersect and it will render the entire “wages for labor” model of providing for human necessities obsolete. And my feeling is that we are already at that point for a large number of jobs, and the number of jobs that exist in the “contradiction space” that happens after the lines cross in only increasing year by year.
Oncce that hits a critical mass there is no longer any meaningful benefits that unions can provide and to me in a lot of cases we are already there