10 mo. ago • 97%

I Build Cars For a Living. I Can’t Afford to Buy One.

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My company bills 1h of my time to clients at roughly what I make in almost a week.

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- pure distilled marxism
  
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Toyota executives was greedy and didn't continue paying their workers fairly and now they are unionizing. They fucked around. Here comes the finding out.

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- It's so weird to see this. Where I live, unions are a default. It should become the norm everywhere, not just in northern Europe.
  
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  In which country of Western, Central or Southern Europe are unions not a default? Don't know about Eastern Europe.
  
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This is basically worker alienation that Marx talks about in Estranged Labour.

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While everyone should be able to afford basic necessities like a vehicle and wages need to be increased across the board, the title is weird. You can work at a factory making a thing you can't afford and not have much of a problem with that. "I build cruise liners for a living. I can't afford to buy one." would be a strange statement.

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- Is this video about something only large corporations can afford, or is it about something that is necessary for lots of families to have and seen as normal to buy?
  
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  Please reread my first sentence.
  
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- Mate, come on. He makes Toyotas, not super yachts. I think you're missing the point.
  
  I don't think his view here is "anything that I have a hand in manufacturing, I should be able to afford".
  
  That's not the point of this video, and it's not the mindset that anybody is espousing.
  
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  As I said in another reply, fair enough. I just read it in a way that inferred something it seems other people didn't.
  
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at 0:05: "I totaled a car last week and I can't afford to replace it". I feel like there is a bit of undue entitlement in that statement. Should any worker be able to comfortably replace a car that they destroyed?

I have no love for Toyota or any other mega corp, and I think the bigger issue in this article is the very first statement in the interview: "I spent three and a half years building cars and I can't afford a home yet". That is a big problem, but I wouldn't attribute that to greedy corporate employers exclusively.

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- Should any worker be able to comfortably replace a car that they destroyed?
  
  Yes, as everything around being a worker is designed for having a car. Should people be punished by loss of income and healthcare for, we don't know what it was, a lapse of attention, black ice in a corner, you name it?
  
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- I wouldn't attribute that to greedy corporate employers exclusively.
  
  I would, maybe not exclusively but have you seen how much the investor class profit and hoard?
  
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  I would
  
  But not exclusively.
  
  You can point the finger to individual and foreign investors, but also to government policies (or lack thereof) that make that possible.
  
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