Ep. 8 - Who Protects the Worker [1/7]. Milton Friedman's Free to Choose (1980)

Naturally, workers are concerned about wages, fringe benefits, and job security. Many people feel vulnerable, at the mercy of the "system." One response has been the development of a variety of unions, professional organizations, and other groups dedicated to looking after the interests of members. There is evidence that working people have made significant progress over the past two centuries.

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[glazierEd]

Union yes

[Willredd94]

Wow, look at all the socialist comments from ignoramuses on this great video.

[Laughingblades]

A man who uses public roads, enjoys public security, enjoys the education and infrastructure we the workers have shed blood and tears to provide for him.

[Laughingblades]

Why can the workers not be allowed to own the work place as in the worker's cooperatives of europe? What happens if we need medical care and we're not rich? This man sells you a system in which your right to survival is predicated on capital.

[Laughingblades]

What this shill of the business elite says no longer applies today.

Free to choose? What choice do you have? What is your alternative to wage slavery? Starvation, losing your home, they are no more choices than the act of survival, does this man mean to convince us that life or death is our choice?

[Laughingblades]

When the private elite control the work place and treat the worker as a commodity, then takes the majority of the worker's income and keeps it for himself only to give the worker a pittance of an hourly wage, while it is the worker who puts his blood sweat and tears into the company making it prosper, then something is fundamentally wrong with the system.

There was a time in America when the people considered wage labor a form of slavery, now we have been conditioned to accept it. We should not

[AroundSun]

NICE