re: The Left Is Brainwashing Youth Into Thinking Unions Are Good For Them

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But you need to have your head buried deep in the sand if you don’t see the wage stagnation over the past 40 years have been brutal and crippling.

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Not only are housing costs increasing, but also health care and insurance keep rising. While some employers have swallowed some of that increase, if you have a family plan, they are less likely to pay for Junior and your spouse’s coverage, so you pay those costs pretax.

Luckily, I am single with no kids. I have often joked for some that if insurance keeps going up for family coverage and your wages are not enough to cover the insurance do you have to pay your employer to work there just for the insurance.

Now in some areas like along the gulf coast, insurance for flood, wind and hail, and automobile insurance have been increasing faster than inflation and putting a strain on some locals.

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But you need to have your head buried deep in the sand if you don’t see the wage stagnation over the past 40 years have been brutal and crippling.

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1) Its natural as our low level workers compete globally now, and they didn't 50 years ago. Our workers make too much money to complete globally. Evern China has reached some equilibrium as companies exit for cheaper places like Vietnam and Mexico.

2) Welfare. Boosting the low income standard of living through handouts

3) Immigration. Importing millions of lowly educated people puts extreme downward pressure on wages.

4) Govt monetary policy which we all have supported since we benefitted though we pretend otherwise.

5) Increasing corporatization through mergers, way too many "too big to fail" companies which we already have laws to prevent.

Young people with little work ethic are fricked. Young people who want to hustle will find it better than any previous time.

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This is definitely true. But you need to have your head buried deep in the sand if you don’t see the wage stagnation over the past 40 years have been brutal and crippling.

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So the solution is to take the extra wages the union negotiated for me and pay the union with it?