TIL in 1981, Ronald Reagan fired 11,345 air traffic controllers after they refused to end their strike and subsequently banned them from federal service for life

Ooh this is a dank one, yer damn right I came.

"An increased rate of airplane accidents" ahahahaha and what is that rate exactly?

Are you seriously trying to use the safest mode of transportation as an example of how hiring strikebreakers reduces safety? And do you have any source at all for that claim that the strikebreakers did their jobs less effectively, can you point to any evidence that whatever difference in accident rates you perceive isn't attributable to any one of the other myriad plane industry changes that happen in any given decade?

You're being willfully ignorant, so let me reiterate it for your /r/LateStageEdgyTween blessed little head:

There is no such thing as "underpaid" or "overpaid" except if you're comparing 2 objectively equal candidates doing the same role with the same experience at the same level of skill in the same location. Everyone is paid exactly what their context will allow for, nobody "deserves" anything. There's just the reality of their value as determined by their skills and circumstances.

Teachers and bus drivers and sky-bus drivers have a glut of qualified candidates, and it doesn't take long for anyone off the street to acquire the skills that they need to do those jobs. So yeah, they don't get paid much, because there are equivalent people willing to do the same work for less. They're highly fungible and low-value roles.

Your age matters because before you're a certain age, you don't have any life experience in the workforce and as a result you have a wholly different worldview. Before I started my career, I was a bleeding heart welfare-recipient-sympathizer just like all the other adorable student naifs. But when you enter the real world and start paying taxes, you start to notice just how many people are laughably unproductive and yet screech about being entitled to the goods and services that are paid for by my tax dollars. That grows you up real fast. Kids have an overabundance of empathy for the paid-like-shit class, because they haven't been exposed to the reality that those whiny poors really just didn't aren't trying very hard to be financially independent. That's why I'm assuming you're a student or don't have much work experience yet, just like most of the most politically vocal redditors.

"corporations are people" is an odd one to pick by the way, are you unaware that this legal distinction exists for a very bleeding-heart purpose? The whole point of considering corporations "people" in some legal contexts is so that plaintiffs can hold them legally responsible for crimes! What did you think the purpose or application of that was?

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