Labor, both unskilled and skilled, drives all economic growth. Ideas have no value until labor creates the tangible embodiments of those ideas.
That laborers, both skilled and unskilled, tend to be fungible, is the reason that they typically have no individual leverage to earn their fair share of the value created by their efforts.
Laborers end up having to unionize to gain the leverage to claw some additional fraction of the true value of their efforts.
The value distribution pyramid is upside down. Ideas have no value until laborers produce a sellable product.
Management ought to be far more grateful and gracious to those who labor day after day to produce the goods we want and need.
That laborers, both skilled and unskilled, tend to be fungible, is the reason that they typically have no individual leverage to earn their fair share of the value created by their efforts.
Laborers end up having to unionize to gain the leverage to claw some additional fraction of the true value of their efforts.
The value distribution pyramid is upside down. Ideas have no value until laborers produce a sellable product.
Management ought to be far more grateful and gracious to those who labor day after day to produce the goods we want and need.