To be honest here, Jon, while I sympathize with the business owner and the customers, I could not give less of a crap about the workers here. They made a bad choice, and it bit them in the ass.
Stupid people who make bad decisions do stupid things, and are oblivious of their own stupidity. Isn't that the essence and definition of stupid?
Why be cordial about the vacant stupidity of these people? Human beings learn from their mistakes through the shame of their actions. Stupid people are unaware of their stupidity or they wouldn't be doing stupid things and making stupid decisions. How does one pivot from stupidity?
This is the Logic of what's going on here.
What kind of an idiot makes themselves less employable by tattooing their face and piercing it with enough metal to open a hardware store? The same kind that will make stupid decisions about unionizing to end up unemployed! Even the employer is stupid for hiring the losers in the first place.
Accountability, and responsibility are the essence of individual existence... We are talking about people who are disassociated from their individualism. That's the cognitive poison of Leftist idealism, and particularly Karl Marx's mental illness that he and Frederick Engels documented as a manifesto.
Leftist idealism is stupid. In action it is manifest stupidity.
Another casualty to the Labor Theory of Value. While plausible at first blush (value = capital + labor + profit), it has it exactly backwards: the value of labor is derived from the subjective value placed by the consumer on the product offerred.
The unionization idea might have proved mutually beneficial if the employees weren't so greedy. The shop may have welcomed an agreement that starts with stable but low compensation appropriate for the business realities, but that increased as the business grew. Unions usually only target successful businesses, but a newer business might also welcome a realistic employee agreement that provides stability.
To be honest here, Jon, while I sympathize with the business owner and the customers, I could not give less of a crap about the workers here. They made a bad choice, and it bit them in the ass.
Fair point
The goofballs with tattooed faces and pierced noses are going to have fun finding a new coffee shop to work at.
Stupid people who make bad decisions do stupid things, and are oblivious of their own stupidity. Isn't that the essence and definition of stupid?
Why be cordial about the vacant stupidity of these people? Human beings learn from their mistakes through the shame of their actions. Stupid people are unaware of their stupidity or they wouldn't be doing stupid things and making stupid decisions. How does one pivot from stupidity?
This is the Logic of what's going on here.
What kind of an idiot makes themselves less employable by tattooing their face and piercing it with enough metal to open a hardware store? The same kind that will make stupid decisions about unionizing to end up unemployed! Even the employer is stupid for hiring the losers in the first place.
Accountability, and responsibility are the essence of individual existence... We are talking about people who are disassociated from their individualism. That's the cognitive poison of Leftist idealism, and particularly Karl Marx's mental illness that he and Frederick Engels documented as a manifesto.
Leftist idealism is stupid. In action it is manifest stupidity.
Another casualty to the Labor Theory of Value. While plausible at first blush (value = capital + labor + profit), it has it exactly backwards: the value of labor is derived from the subjective value placed by the consumer on the product offerred.
The unionization idea might have proved mutually beneficial if the employees weren't so greedy. The shop may have welcomed an agreement that starts with stable but low compensation appropriate for the business realities, but that increased as the business grew. Unions usually only target successful businesses, but a newer business might also welcome a realistic employee agreement that provides stability.