> Bernie Sanders wants millionaires (and billionaires) to pay very high taxes after certain cutoff --all well and good. He's a millionaire, the IRS allows you to overpay or donate to the treasury, but despite his beliefs, he personally does not overpay his taxes.
This is something folks love to bring up as if it's hypocrisy (see also: Warren Buffet, also literally any other prominent rich person who's called for higher taxes), but it can be completely consistent to think that a net benefit can be achieved by a policy or law that causes you (and others) a little harm, but to see voluntarily causing oneself that same harm without the collective action to go along with it, as not doing enough good to be worth the harm.
This behavior could be some kind of indication that a person's view is performative and they're in fact hypocrites who aren't serious about it—or it can indicate that they've actually thought this through and came to a reasonable position, or that they simply took the right class or two in college so they know to look out for these kinds of dynamics (where individual action does so little it's basically pointless self-sacrifice, but collective action with the exact same personal cost can be very effective).
They may believe in Unionism at large, for others to observe, like a parent steering their child from drugs, but they may see unions as antithetical to their own business. Lots of elite progressives are like this. Down with cops, defund the police, but then turn around and hire private security -see the mayor of Chicago, for example.
This is something folks love to bring up as if it's hypocrisy (see also: Warren Buffet, also literally any other prominent rich person who's called for higher taxes), but it can be completely consistent to think that a net benefit can be achieved by a policy or law that causes you (and others) a little harm, but to see voluntarily causing oneself that same harm without the collective action to go along with it, as not doing enough good to be worth the harm.
This behavior could be some kind of indication that a person's view is performative and they're in fact hypocrites who aren't serious about it—or it can indicate that they've actually thought this through and came to a reasonable position, or that they simply took the right class or two in college so they know to look out for these kinds of dynamics (where individual action does so little it's basically pointless self-sacrifice, but collective action with the exact same personal cost can be very effective).