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How is it a position of privilege? It would mean that manufacturing in Europe would gain a lot of income, provide more lower skill jobs in Europe, consolidate the economy. Reduced shippings costs would directly go into the European economy.
I would like there to be more unions, otherwise large companies even in Europe are too powerful and too dehumanizing. If you don't talk about this, it will only get worse.
Buying hand-made clothes from individual artisans is actually cheaper in Europe than well-known brands, but it sadly requires more research and time for searching.
You blamed workers not asking for raises for their pay being low. That's privilege in a nutshell.
I am sure when you go to work and don't get a raise for 10 years, you would think twice of the importance of worker unions in large companies.
It's just, if you talk about finances driving your decisions, you must talk about fair wages and the current state of things. Otherwise you're ignoring the full picture.
I blame large companies much more than I blame people not doing unions, but unions is the only possibility for people to fight back long-term abuse for a job they either perceive as acceptable, or not changeable (for whatever reason).
Your words:
You said nothing about unions at all.
And people shouldn't have to join a union or ask to get paid fairly. Again, a privileged idea that takes corporations off the hook.
People definitely should ask to be paid fairly. What is the point otherwise? To roll over and get fucked by any company willing to accept your skillset to make them insane amounts of money?
What the fuck.
Wow. You're still making it their job to ask and not up to the company to pay the fair wage and you don't even realize how pro-corporate that is.
What the fuck. I keep saying I hate large companies, and they are literally abusing people by not raising peoples' wages over 10 year time-frames.
I would be fine joining a petition forcing companies to at least go inline with inflation with their wages, but you did not propose it, you are just trying to be angry at something I didn't say.
The imagination that prices would skyrocket is naive, I think. Yes, there could be a period of high prices, and people would buy less, and more focused on what we need (in the specific case of extreme import cut-off), but the import tax is already around 20%, if it was manufactured in Europe, that is already going directly into the profit margins.