Yes. People suffered and died to give us things we willingly gave away.
I suppose we could wire up their corpses to a turbine for free energy, since they’ll be spinning in their graves at around 15000 rpm.
I haven’t been feeling my best last two days, but this actually gave me enough energy to laugh aloud. Thanks!
The Battle of Blair Mountain was the largest labor uprising in United States history
And I had never heard of it. Although I’m not American.
It’s crazy, basically the 2nd American civil war. Miners storming Pinkerton machine gun nests is how the US got down to a 40 hour work week.
Its crazy they dont even talk about this in American schools. They attribute it to Henry Ford.
Lived in a liberal state, but when I was in high school, they attributed it to the Wobblies and left it at that.
They really just pulled whatever out their asses huh?
I mean, the Wobblies were a big part of the labor movement which achieved the 40-hour workweek. It’s just a mixture of “Glossing over” and “Complex background reduced to the most prominent actor regardless of whether it’s the right one”
I think they mean that the “Wobblies” and the “Pinkertons” just sound like a bunch of cartoon characters or something.
