What I DO think is true is plenty of people making good salaries just keep their mouths shut when they get a dose of mandatory training from these sorts of people. If all the people who got a tingle to speak up all did, well that might change something. Given about 80 percent of the population is a wage slave to debt, I do not forsee people en masse doing too much about it.
You are correct about this...but it also the weak link. If the economy truly breaks the debt slaves will have nothing left to lose.
This is why they have the whole 'avoid economic collapse at all cost' dial turned up to 11.
This talk about how the elite hold people as wage slaves and rising en masse to change things sounds to me a lot like a proletarian revolution.
My understanding is that you're very anti-communist, however. So what changes should the people implement if they were to rise up en masse against their elite employers?
I am a laissez-faire an-cap/minarchist type...
I am opposed to any type of totalitarian style control, whether it be communist, fascist or the current 'crony so-called capitalism'
If you think the current system is 'capitalism' you might want to read a few books on the subject...
True capitalism doesn't have legal barriers like 'only qualified investors get to sign on for IPOs', 'financial firms get bailed out by government for making bad loans after the government mandated said loans' or 'fiat currencies with an inflation rate tax that only affects certain people".
Kind of like Bill Gates supposedly being this huge philanthropist and all in favor of helping the less fortunate...unless your name was Netscape.
...as for unions/proletariat banding together for more wages. I am all for them doing that. More power to them if it works. That would be a seller's market. I am also all for their employer to say something like "The labor pool is big enough I can find enough other people who need the jobs, so you are fired." That would be a buyer's market.
What I am against is government creating artificial barriers that affect some people at the expense of others...
That means I don't agree with tariffs as long as the country in question is requiring companies to operate under the same restrictions as the US (ie no slave labor, similar environmental restrictions, etc)
It also means I have no problem with an open border (as soon as you end the federal level means tested programs, return my SS investment value over time adjusted by (10%+actual inflation), and remove all of the federal tax structure to be replaced by a 22% purchase tax on all 'new' items/services/etc.*)
*in case you are worried, poor people actually won't have to pay the tax. Everyone in the US gets a monthly check equivalent to 22% of the poverty level monthly income to cover that tax. Effectively you are only paying if you are spending above the poverty level.