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[–] bikergang_accountant 1 point 6 points (+7|-1) ago 

Unions. The total amount of manufacturing per square mile in the US is up in most places since the center of Detroit's heyday. Seems they exported their jobs to more than just china over that period.

Let unions run things and shit will get shut down eventually. Patents expire so even if excluding that methods change. Blank corporation may have some fixed comparative advantage that makes it so it can still get work despite a union but that advantage will slip away with time and all you will have is a shell. Apply it to enough businesses in the same area, you get Detroit. Detroit isn't a story, it's a thousand miniature stories of why a specific business didn't want to work there anymore that sums up in aggregate.

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[–] Aldo 1 point 2 points (+3|-1) ago  (edited ago)

Not unions, corporations. Why pay a union man a fair wage when you can outsource it to China for 1/10th of the cost?

I don't understand the idea that we can have all these well paying jobs, but unions are bad. Unions fight for the worker to ensure they get paid their worth instead of getting bottom of the barrel folks with high turnover. Sure, they protect their own, but isn't that good for the hard worker?

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[–] Whitworth ago 

Detroit unions fought to be overpaid while being aggressively lazy. They fought hard for the interests of the DNC who returned the favor by ignoring the American worker in favor of welfare queens, transsexuals, and muslims.

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[–] DickHertz ago 

Some people believe that shareholders are the only ones investing something and entitled to return. It's a pretty fucked idea when your employees invest their lives in producing that return. Besides it's easier to play with money and multi-dimensional derivatives than actually making something.

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[–] PrincessVB ago 

Globalization. Unions are powerless to stop a job from fleeing abroad if they're only nationally strong at best.