Punk wrote:Maddog wrote:wutang wrote:Maddog wrote:I have no doubt the government will find a way to fuck it up like they do everything that actually works.
What the government will do is pass watered down, ineffective, reforms hoping to placate the workers enough to stop them taking actions like strikes/protests. The wind will have been taken out of the sails of the workers movement and the government will champion itself as looking out for the interests of the people.
Same thing happened with the living wage - grassroots movement across the country aiming to force/pressurise businesses to pay a decent wage (the living wage). The government responded by renaming the minimum wage the 'Living wage' (even though it was below the level being sort after by the movement) and then championing themselves as being pro-worker.
And it will take away choices and use force. It's what government does under the guise of helping people.
That policy was started in Germany during the early 1930s whilst Socialist leaders were being executed.
The Red Terror predates that by a couple of decades.
In any event, government's using force is hardly new, and continues to this day. The level of force, of course, varies by country.