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> A very vocal front sees this as an opportunity to do all the things the socialists and central planners wanted anyway

What if they're right? Should we all go down with the ship just to maintain some sort of dogmatic pride in our preferred economic system?

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That’s backward. The fact that they want to shovel union labor requirements into a bill dealing with climate change indicates that the climate change part isn’t a serious threat.

Why is it backward? Unions enable general strikes which enable wide-ranging policy changes.

The union aspect is being pitched for things like a living wage, not strikes in favor of climate change.

A higher wage can also break bad cycles like always choosing the cheapest produce etc. I assume the general message is that it's possible for people to get a better life by other means than just ruthless, unsustainable, growth.

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