08-01-2018, 05:23 PM
(08-01-2018, 05:03 PM)treee Wrote: One argument for stronger social services is that it gives the common man more bargaining power when negotiating terms of employment. It decreases the number of desperate workers able to be taken advantage of.
This is very much true. There were some great minds (the names of which I read a long time ago and have forgotten) that discussed the transition to wage labor and the reliance of the laborer on the employers to be, in essence, a new type of slavery. By crafting a social safety net that workers can fall back on it improves the position from which they can bargain for increased pay and treatment in the workplace.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
