Belated Labour Day Reflections

This past Labour Day, the Microsoft Network got the highly original, provocative idea to question whether or not labour unions are obsolete. They spoke with some union-busting scum-bag to see what he thought about the matter and the asshole opined thusly:

"Unions are like parasites - good parasites are the ones that do not kill the
host. Unions need employers and sometimes they forget that,"

Which is pretty fuckin' rich. What the stupid fuck has obviously missed is that it's the present batch of off-shoring, down-sizing, wealth-squeezing oligarchs who are the parasites. And these parasites have forgotten that unless there are markets for their goods, there's no profit in doing anything which means that there's nothing to invest in besides increasingly desperate hopes and dreams and moonshine. Which is the root cause of the last real-estate/financial sector crisis and the present state of stagnation and insecurity in the world economy.

Just thought I'd share.