So direct democracy anywhere except not necessarely the ballot box?
I grew freaking tired of my favourite lefty youtubers gone haggled down to uphold unions as the bullwark of the working class, now that any kind of big change is out of the picture. Unions are a valuable institution, I'm not denying that. But when yankees talk about those "good paying union jobs" all of these have something other in common than just unions: high qualification levels and more often than not vital to the infrastructure.
Over here most people are"unionized",I pay union fees too. Once they got me back a few thousand bucks in salary from some conman who went bankrupt for like the fifth time. That's what they do over here: amend the worst kinds of abuses after the facts. But they're like the least probable to instigate real change, completly hinging on old labor law acquirements making them very myopic. Technocracy beats unionisation. And by technocracy I mean EU parlament style parlamentarianism that makes everything too complicated for those without armies of lawyers, not automatisation.
edit, a little bit more context: See over here there is parts of the national labor agency's work being outsourced to unions, unless you want to fill out more paperwork yourself to submit to a more hostile institution you are going to have the payments of your unemployment insurance handled by the unions, eventhough they take member fees of around 30€ a quarteryear IIRC, maybe halfyear. The unemployment service makes up the bulk of their work. It's why I came in contact with unions more or less as soon I turned 18. So in the last 12 years, not once that I went, the folks working there weren't talking to me from behind a mountain of official documents. One "franchise" closed a few years back, so now a 20km radius all flock to the same buro. And their opening hours kept constantly regressing, they now open 3,5 times a week: two times four hours one weekday, two times four hours another weekday but in the afternoon it's only legal services, unemployment service is closed. You can show up 20 minutes before the opening time, and still find yourself standing in line. If you show up in the waiting room 45 minutes before break or closure, you probably won't get your turn.
Also as to the actual topic currently in this thread: I'm actually for that kind of suggestion, 12millions is even about the amount I'd have suggested, if that happens to coincide with 200 years of median income that's actually neat. We can start with 100 years of median income and gradually adjust as things unfuck up. Just that the way you formulated it, I had like images of special management interest organizations popping up, where the CEO and his lackeys all have an organisation to themselves dedicated to their welfare, and everybody in that special club is just member of all of the other CEO&lackey welfare organisations.
re-edit: man I have weird idiosynchracies in what spelling I choose, sometimes spelling the same word both in british and in american in the same sentence.
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