Many don't know anything about democracy beyond voting and top-down structures.
Tayssir
John Adams wrote:
> Of course, the comments are remarkably yet predictably shitheaded.
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70858-0.html?tw=rss.index
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> *Tech Workers of the World, Unite
> *
> by Tony Long
>
> I was raised in a union house. My father was a passionate supporter of
> the labor movement and I've never forgotten that the union helped feed
> and clothe me when I was a kid.
>
> Most of my professional life has been spent as a member of a union (The
> Newspaper Guild) and I'm under no illusion that the working class would
> be better off had things been left to the largesse of the bosses, or to
> the vagaries of a cutthroat, free-market meritocracy. Regardless of the
> industry, virtually all of the workplace comforts and benefits we take
> for granted today exist solely because of battles fought and won long
> ago by once-powerful unions....
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