The message of the video is, ‘No.’
‘Man of Steel’ is a good place to start unpacking some of the faulty assumptions of this video.
The steel industry in America and virtually the entire American industrial heartland has been ripped apart by racketeers and 'banksters' who got powerful, in part, by vilifying unions, organized labor, and the idea of decent wages (and with it, the idea of decent families;
increasingly torn apart by debts imposed by these 'banksters' resulting in children having to resort to drug dealing and prostitution to avoid starvation).
The movie industry itself; the actors, the directors, and writers are all protected by powerful unions. This absurdity is writ large with gasbags like FoxNews’ Bill O’Reilly or Rush Limbaugh railing against unions even though they are in unions themselves.
Additionally, the movie industry - the propaganda arm of America’s Pentagon - is protected by powerful lobbyists like the MPAA. Chris Dodd, the current MPAA chair is part of the government that was characterized recently by Aaron Swartz' father: “Aaron did not commit suicide but was killed by the government. Someone who made the world a better place was pushed to his death by the government.” Reading between the lines and it's clear: Mr. Swartz is calling Chris Dodd a murderer and who can blame him; threatening his son with 35 years in a Federal penitentiary for exercising his Constitutionally protected ‘fair use’ rights.
As I’ve argued before, I’m all for free speech and anyone (no matter how conflicted) can argue against wages and unions in the name of what they call free markets (read: protected rackets) but what about the other side? What is their recourse?
Workers (and unions) can get back in the game by demanding wages tied - not to cooked CPI (inflation) numbers but to money supply. If workers had their wages tied to money supply they would already be enjoying triple their current wages - and the US economy would be in ascent instead of falling out of bed trying to service the trillions of debt racked up by the protected rackets of Hollywood, Bloviating news anchors, copyright extremists and foes of actual free markets and honest workers in the US.
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