The decline in unions and collective bargaining has been a big part of this is my opinion. The anti-union propaganda was so effective that a couple generations killed it off before the younger ones could see it in action.
The disappearance of the USSR made it so that capitalism doesn’t have to pretend the grass is greener on this side. It never was, but now there’s not when pretending.
And globalization meant that companies could just threaten to move the jobs overseas if the remaining unions didn’t accept the bad conditions. Then they moved them overseas anyway
The decline in unions and collective bargaining has been a big part of this is my opinion. The anti-union propaganda was so effective that a couple generations killed it off before the younger ones could see it in action.
Maggie Thatcher fucked the kids
And her BFF Ronald “The Devil” Reagan.
Soviet leadership in the late 70s and 80s played a role, too, at least to the unions who are the most influential where i am
The disappearance of the USSR made it so that capitalism doesn’t have to pretend the grass is greener on this side. It never was, but now there’s not when pretending.
And globalization meant that companies could just threaten to move the jobs overseas if the remaining unions didn’t accept the bad conditions. Then they moved them overseas anyway
It definitely, definitely was.
Such green grass!