Although considering the current balance of power, something promising this might actually end up being:

All the unions involved in the Cloudsdale general strike were outlawed and new state-sanctioned ones were set up.

heart to sun
see it and run
what they say is a screen
they’re lying to thee

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they show their hand
while insisting again
no you did not see
no not never nazi

If they can still clap when the plane lands, they will.

There is precedent for this: a contract for the sale of real estate in the state of NY requires a lawyer with a license to make sure that the deal is fair after some unfortunate abuses of the past.

Why can’t a contract for the sale of labor require a representative? And an organizing body? That’s elected from a given worker pool? Paid via taxes (dues)?

Kinda my point, right?

Make the government represent the people in bargaining contracts.

Local governments.

They then manage the labor market to make it easy for people to get jobs.

Make labor representatives funded by taxes an elected position to bargain for you against an employer.

Like a public defender.

In a court, if necessary.

Where our constitutional rights apply.

To bring this more in-line with OP’s question:

What if we had a general union that represented all workers generally and could provide support for things like general strikes?

Maybe make it a parent body made up of unionized/federated unions specific to each trade/discipline.

Something like the IWW or the AFL-CIO, but that represents all people by default. I’d argue that such a body could/should replace most of what the government does, and then membership is just citizenship. This could guarantee several worker’s rights within the union and enshrine democratic principles/practices.

Good thing that 15F is still pretty warm!

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I am going to have to appeal this decision.

s/rac/rap/g

and it’s still correct

Hey, that’s exactly what I was thinking!

How about we recognize that we agree that wealth inequality is a terrible thing that needs to be called out in a way that emphasizes and describes tbe problem.

I like your way of doing it using a linear scale! I just think that mine is better using the log scale.

Why don’t you stop being an ass and let me do it my way so that people who think like me can understand it?

Look up the Bell Riots.

Great stand-alone two-parter from Deep Space 9 about the 2020s.

Yeah, right after the wealth inequality and homelessness crisis and plagues of the first half of the 2020s.

It certainly fuels the flames.

Once you start asking why the hell the french have to gender everything, you start asking why we have to gender anything.

All of this has happened before, and all of it will happen again.

It seems like you are trying to use statistical trickery

There are no statistics in my or any posts in this thread.

because spreading awareness of the wealth gap is arguably the most important work our society has to do.

That’s why I’m using a log scale and trying to subvert emotional reactions. To help spread awareness and communicate about it.

Billionaires don’t work a thousand times harder than the working class, yet they are paid a thousand times more.

Millionaires are paid a thousand times more. Billionaires are paid a million times more. Using the log scale makes this point a lot better. That’s why I’m using it, to expose the wealth gap. On a linear scale, it’s really hard to tell the difference between two numbers that are both obscenely larger than what you’re used to.

You are muddying the waters with your dismissal of the valid perspective of a log scale, and:

That leaves people with a passion for communicating this issue suspicious of your motives in an anonymous forum where billionaires can easily send people or bots to muddy the waters. We do not need your bad take here. It is actively damaging the cause.

Both the linear and log scales are important for communicating the wealth gap.

Edited for clarity.

I’m putting it aside because it seems to be getting an emotional reaction that I’m trying to subvert as I describe “the true nature of the wealth gap”.

Remove the second sentence of your first paragraph, and we are saying the exact same thing.

Both scales are important. Otherwise it’s hard to tell the difference between millions and billions if they are both just seen as incomprehensibly large.

Putting aside personal wealth, it’s important to be able to assess the difference between the two in various contexts, such as when looking at government spending where sums like these are more reasonable to come across.