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Yeah people will do the job for free basically. I don’t think you could have the same culture if your business was cleaning port-a-pottys.



We know this isn't true because of the necessity of unions. Mining coal and many other trades are a lot worse than cleaning toilets, and people still had to do them nearly for free.


While I do see the value in unions in some settings, this is not a job of necessity. This is a job for people that wish to self actualize and not settle for anything less than their dream job. Wouldn't creating a union for Mr. Beast employees is akin to saying something like "I want to have my dream job but I want it to be easy"? I don't think that the analogy to mining coal holds.


Unions are no longer necessary.

That's not a value judgement on my part, just a conclusion from decades of declining union membership, with no correlating uptick in starvation or massive reduction in wages.

(You may argue for wage stagnation, and you may attribute that to declining unionism, but that is not a collapse in wages!)


Well that’s because the alternative is starvation




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