Need to remember

In one of Bloomberg’s more casual podcasts, someone said:

Welcome to 2023, when nobody wants to work and everything is ten times harder than it should be.

Exactly. Services that used to take days to schedule now take months. Stores are switching to self-scan because they can’t keep employees.

BUT: I need to remember that this is related to the Foy Rebellion I’ve been wishing for. When it happened before in 1946, it was equally hard for customers to get cars or houses or repairs. I’m only on the customer end this time, so I’m not getting the benefits, but it’s a NECESSARY RESTORATION OF ECONOMIC HEALTH and I need to be thankful.

After the enforced privations of WW2, companies expected workers to slip back into their prewar positions with no extra money or considerations. Workers said FUCK THAT and went on strike.

Unions aren’t a big part of the revenge this time, but the few remaining unions are playing their part, especially UAW.

After the dust cleared in 1949, workers had the BEST TWO DECADES in history. From 1949 to 1975, both union and nonunion employers were rigidly constrained by union threats and government regulations. I was on the worker end in those years, and I enjoyed the consequences of the union actions. I didn’t appreciate it enough because I hadn’t experienced the alternative yet!

There’s one important difference between 1946 and 2023. The privations of WW2 were necessary. We were fighting a justified DEFENSE against an actual attacker. The privations of the “virus” hoaxocaust were totally unnecessary, pure monstrous evil perpetrated by governments at all levels and actively assisted by MANY of the big employers.