Can you believe that before unions life used to like this for everyone? Only with less money and 12-hour days?
Oh, baby. We're doing History of Economic Thought this week and next, and it's all "the teeming masses of the unwashed public will not work unless they have the incentives! They are by nature nasty and lazy! Keep the wages lower so that they'll be forced to work 12 hour days just to survive!" and "Humanity sucks! We'll increase our numbers until there is no more food to be had! Fortunately, there's FAMINE and DEATH and PLAGUES..."
I can't help it, I'm going all "oh, come on, I don't like humanity either, most of the time, but give us some credit!"
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Oh, baby. We're doing History of Economic Thought this week and next, and it's all "the teeming masses of the unwashed public will not work unless they have the incentives! They are by nature nasty and lazy! Keep the wages lower so that they'll be forced to work 12 hour days just to survive!" and "Humanity sucks! We'll increase our numbers until there is no more food to be had! Fortunately, there's FAMINE and DEATH and PLAGUES..."
I can't help it, I'm going all "oh, come on, I don't like humanity either, most of the time, but give us some credit!"