[HN Gopher] Trains, trucks, and supply chains
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       Trains, trucks, and supply chains
        
       Author : JumpCrisscross
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2022-12-16 14:13 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | kneebonian wrote:
       | So I'm a pretty classical libertarian and overall don't love
       | unions and really hate government intervention in pretty much
       | anything especially the economy.
       | 
       | But here's the thing is that a society that stops caring for the
       | poor, that exploits it's people, or in the words of the Bible
       | that has "afalse swearers, and against those that oppress the
       | hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that
       | turn aside the stranger from his right," is going to be headed
       | for rough times and is morally bankrupt.
       | 
       | It feels to me like we are seeing more and more of that lately
       | with things like passing laws to prevent the workers from
       | striking, the massive wealth transfer that occurred during COVID,
       | the way corporations are becoming land lords optimizing for
       | profit. It just all seems to me like we are headed down a dark
       | road where our only god is money and the only sin is not
       | extracting the maximum profit.
        
         | efnx wrote:
         | We've been on that road for a long, long time.
        
           | mistrial9 wrote:
           | I heard a political science graduate speak at a very high
           | quality Big Data conference in SF, and what he said in 20
           | minutes really struck a chord for me..
           | 
           | basically, the ugly, illegal and regressive forces in
           | (politics) will always be present, but by growing
           | participation, and some orderly enforcement of rules, you can
           | "dilute" or out-number the bad actors, with systems that are
           | more efficient, more fair and get better long-term outcomes.
           | On the other hand, when things are tough, when those that
           | cheat knowingly gain an upper-hand, when factional fighting
           | outweighs the orderly participation, then ugly, illegal and
           | regressive forces grow, and are proportionally larger in the
           | results overall.
        
       | SeanLuke wrote:
       | > Second, why does the Senate have the ability to force the Union
       | to accept a resolution? This is clearly not the case in other
       | industries.
       | 
       | It isn't? I think it is.
        
         | _huayra_ wrote:
         | Railroad workers are covered by the Railway Labor Act, while
         | almost every other job is covered by the National Labor
         | Relations Act. The RLA makes it harder to strike, but the
         | tactics that strikers may use once a strike is declared are
         | much broader than under the NLRA. [0]
         | 
         | [0]
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Labor_Act#Bargaining_a...
        
           | rdtwo wrote:
           | They will never be allowed to strike so it doesn't matter
        
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