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zero_gravitas@aussie.zoneM to Australian Politics@aussie.zoneEnglish · 2 months ago

Why declining productivity and rising inequality won't be met with bold reform | Alan Kohler

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Why declining productivity and rising inequality won't be met with bold reform | Alan Kohler

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zero_gravitas@aussie.zoneM to Australian Politics@aussie.zoneEnglish · 2 months ago
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As rising inequality demands reform, business is 'circling the wagons'
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Business used the collapse of unions to suppress wages and oligopoly power to increase prices. Expecting it now — using AI — to fix declining productivity, rising inequality, generational anger and political polarisation is fanciful.
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    Expecting corporations, or the major parties in bed with them, to simply give workers better conditions? Yes, fanciful.

    That’s why we need robust worker unions that use these opportunities to demand better.

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      @bignose @zero_gravitas can you remember who gave us those better working conditions in the first place, and is busy doing so again?

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        Better working conditions were never given; if you can find a counter example I’d love to know it.

        Better working conditions only ever come because workers organise, demand, and fight for them to be instituted in law. And continue to fight to preserve them.

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          @bignose And Labor put that into law. It’s why howard was never able to undo it all, though he tried his hardest.

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