Take Me to Your Leader: The Rot of the American Ruling Class
►https://jacobinmag.com/2021/04/take-me-to-your-leader-the-rot-of-the-american-ruling-class
Das Dilemma der Taxiunternehmen gut erklärt - ordentliche Tariflöhne kann die BVG zahlen, Taxi- und Mietwagenunternehmen kämpfen um einen begrenzten Markt, der keine Gnade kennt. Das ähnelt dem Vergleich der alten US-Autoindustrie mit den vielen kleinen Untrrnehmen, die sich mit regionalen Märkten begnügen mußten.
Eisenhower was not a reactionary. As he wrote to his brother:
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things . . . [but] their number is negligible and they are stupid.
The business branch of that “splinter group” had a material problem with the Eisenhower-era settlement: General Motors may have preferred life without the UAW, but it could afford to pay union rates, especially in exchange for labor peace. Smaller fries couldn’t. They were caught in the petite bourgeoisie’s classic position, squeezed by big labor and big capital. Their freedom was under siege, and they reacted by funding a right-wing insurgency. The John Birch Society was founded in 1958 by the retired CEO of a Massachusetts-based candy company, Robert Welch, who’d made a fortune off lollipops and Junior Mints. Welch was rich, but he was no Rockefeller or Mellon.