“Unions will never be necessarily evil, but they are never a public good unless management is unreasonable to the extent of offering contracts which amount to slavery.”
*”Offering” and “slavery” don’t go together. Slavery is “forced” labor, not “offered” labor. Don’t dilute the word! Slaves never had a choice. It was do or die.
The FREE MARKET is made up of deals, or contracts on deals, in which there is a VOLUNTARY exchange. Labor, products, services, property…. we usually use a “dollar value” as a tool communicate the exchange.
Who doesn’t wish they could get more in an exchange than they usually do no matter what side of the exchange you are on? EX: I wish I got paid more at work. I wish I got more for my money at the store. I wish I got higher rent receipts for my apartments. And I wish I could find some one cheaper to put the roof on my house. (And I am sure the other parties are wishing too.)In the end, I decide freely to take the deal or leave it. I might not find a better deal. If my employer finds the lady next to me a better deal for the promotion, she gets it. If rentals are in short supply I can get more per month, and make up for the years when I have to charge less because of a glut.
We have to have food, housing, jobs… and sometimes we “feel” forced to take what we can get, but that is usually because if we don’t the next guy is willing to pay for it. It is the law of supply and demand in a free market. When the demand becomes high enough or the supply low enough, that the dollar value goes up, then someone will see it worthwhile to provide a supply.
I know this elementary, but it so elementary we sometimes forget to think about it.
Regulations, big unions, and freebie entitlements screw the free market up. They are seeds of destruction, cogs in the wheel…
Look at free “public”, (I rather say government,) schools and teachers with the biggest unions in the US. We have free education, (now unappreciated by the masses,) and teachers with tenure who are near impossible to fire. The student or the parents are so removed form the deal with the teachers… and they are compelled by law to attend somewhere. So the teachers have a guaranteed “customer base.” Is it no wonder that private schools can educate students better for less money per student. On the national average, it cost $10,000 less per year per student. Government education was one our first and largest “socialistic” programs to experiment with and we are starting to see the failure.
It is time to wake up because the free market with cogs forced in it won’t work for long. Eventually it falls apart.
