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Noah Smith 🐇
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My view is that some unions will be pro-abundance and some unions will be anti-abundance. We've seen this with the YIMBY movement in California. Painting unions with a broad, uniform brush is not a good idea here.
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Josh Barro
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As I said, committing to a politics of abundance is going to require Democrats to have fights with labor unions. It's already happening in California: politico.com/news/2025/06/2
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Artur S.
@asdf_101
unions are like gardeners: some plant more trees .. others guard the shade the roots are the same .. but the branches: "wildly different"
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Josey Mourinbro
@JMourinbro
The pro-abundance unions are like the hard working homeless who just got unlucky. I’m constantly told they are out there, but I haven’t ever seen them. Just luddites trying to ban automation and drug addicts. Most unions are not pro-abundance, they are rent seekers.
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Moose
@mmoooose
Ngl I thought this tweet was about painting the painters' union with a broad brush.
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@slowergrey
I feel like the crux of abundance is result driven government. The same should be applied to unions.
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Nick
@ningbeck
Any group with power can be a rent-seeker. Some unions may actually want more housing, energy and building within their area because that means more jobs, but others will fight a rearguard action protecting a small inefficient niche.
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Reid Greer
@jreidgreer
Unions aren't ideological projects though, they're special interest groups. They don't set out to be "pro" or "anti" abundance, they try to maximize wages for their members. I'm less concerned with their ideology and more with their stranglehold on Californian politics.
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Favour Ayorinde
@viyancefavour
I think this is the biggest mistake people who aren't versed in economics tend to make. They assume each political group or class has the same economic interest. e.g, all rich people want tax cuts, or all landlords want to squeeze tenants, or all workers want minimum wage
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Managing Democracy
@DrPlutocracy
The problem is that unionized construction workers are citizens, and nearly always more skilled than the undocumented construction workers that are being used by powerful Democrats, especially in CA, to destroy unions in the private sector with specious and disingenuous policies.
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