Someone on the Internet is WRONG! (NSFW)

... being in a union is a deal with the devil. You are not exposed (for better or worse) to market forces and so you have no incentive to sharpen your skills, move into management, pay attention to what's going on around you in the labor market, etc. Maybe it works out for you, maybe you get screwed. Also, I have a brother in law who is an airline mechanic - another industry with poisonous management-labor relations. The stuff he tells me with a straight face about the causes of the problems in his industry are unbelievable.

Anonymous Megan McArdle commenter who said this? Fuck you. No, really, fuck you.

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