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In reply to the discussion: Explain This To Me Like I'm A Complete Idiot, Part 15: No Millennial Left Behind? [View all]JayhawkSD
(3,163 posts)...the same legislators again and again, which millenials are doing at the same pace as the generation before them.
You don't repair it by focusing on minimum wage because you now accept that selling hamburgers is a meaningful and useful lifelong career.
You don't repair it by pleading with the government to create labor unions for you.
You repair it by demanding that your employer provide you, in return for your labor, with what you need to live your life with dignity, and by banding together and doing whatever it takes, with or without the permission of law, to enforce that demand.
We did that in the 1960s, us Teamsters; standing at the gates of our steel plant with axe handles in our hands, refusing the demands of armed policemen to disband, and denying entry to any who wanted to replace us for lower wages, who we called "scabs" and threatened with bodily harm.