People fought, went to prison, and died to have unions, that's why they had teeth.

Workers had much more teeth back then due to crisis of profitability prior to WW2 that affected the entire world, as seen by the great depressions and austerity. Bad conditions = unrest

After WW2, in US especially whose capital didn't get destroyed in the imperialist war, there was a period of superprofits due to everything having to be rebuilt, baby boom, etc. New outlets for investment opened up.

Workers were still rowdy, but got suppressed by red scares, failed revolutions, and concessions bourgeois used from the newfound superprofits to fund keynesianism/welfare states.

Now that rate of profit is back in the gutter again (it always falls), we are going back to austerity and it's what ultimately drives everything, not some evil cabal but tendency for rate of profit to fall

As I said in the original thread, this is who why liberal arts education should be required.

Soc 100 or 101 would be required* and people would be studying: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-component_theory_of_stratification

"An attempt thwarted is as good as no attempt made! There was never a threat! Stop fighting and let them just win this time!"

See, I can do that lazy crap too.

I wish we would stop calling them elite and start calling them parasite assholes.