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In reply to the discussion: What I like to tell my RW friends regarding their "working HARDER to EARN a better wage" chestnut - [View all]Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)There's no logical, let alone theoretical explanation of why they can contradict themselves in the same breath. All you have to do to smoke them out and show their bias is just what you and JDPriestly above did: Take their statements; the ones they use in isolation, and put them together.
Other profanely class-based double standards I've noticed in following issues like this:
-A mouthpiece for a big over-the-road trucking firm bemoaning their inability to have enough drivers. He openly stated that despite the demand for them they can't afford to increase rates of pay. "Competitiveness" and all that. Hell-lo!? What about supply/demand and all that they're always waving their fingers at us about?
-An airline labor negotiation about a dozen years ago. The ground crew really had the leverage and the company knew it. They, and the business press shills, pressured heavily to have the government intervene and prevent a strike because air travel was too important to interrupt. Suddenly a business becomes a social service. There was no strike, and no intervention and the ground crew got a good deal, which had the company fuming. Cheeky peasants and all that.
-Spend time around buttoned normally "it's just business" types when their tongues loosen after a few drinks and you'll see the utter contempt for the working class gush forth. Maybe it's MBA brainwashing but to hear them tell it, they're the relevant sorts that make it all happen: We're just objects walking about. The hired help.