So no one should make art, since it's exploited. Versus just unionizing, or investing in your suppliers a bit?
Minimum wage and weekends only exist because we rejected the "if you don't like it, work somewhere else" mentality... oh yeah, and because of unions, too.
> So no one should make art, since it's exploited.
That's a bit extreme. Nobody should agree to abusive working conditions - there is a difference.
And no, unions did not grant us minimum wage or weekends. There was a strong labor movement happening regardless of unions at the time.
Minimum wage - you probably don't want to use that as some sort of argument crutch anyway, because it's original intended purpose will not support your position.
People who support unions seem to believe unions are the only way to gain better employment opportunities or fix conditions they believe are wrong. Which is where the pro-union people lose the general population...
Unions have been mal-actors for decades. People see what they do... including doom an entire generation of children recently. People have largely rejected unions in modern times - for very good reasons.
Today's unions exist to serve the union. It's pretty sick how they turned out... but what do you expect from any sufficiently large and long-lived bureaucracy.
Minimum wage and weekends only exist because we rejected the "if you don't like it, work somewhere else" mentality... oh yeah, and because of unions, too.