Basically, there’s a group of guys called longshoremen, who unload all the stuff that comes into the country by boats (which is pretty much everything you buy, right?). The longshoremen all make more money than doctors, because their union has a legal stranglehold over the ports and their mob-connected boss is willing to cripple the American economy to get them even more money. So when you hear longshoreman, think “boat unloading guy making shitloads of money.” The union is paranoid about automation destroying their jobs, though, since robots can unload containers 5x faster and for 1/100th the cost, and also without threatening to wreck the economy and make inflation worse one month before an election and six weeks before the holiday season. Still with me? Good. Now pour me another glass of champagne and let’s talk about something called the Taft-Hartley Act.
max: you see. “minecraft stream when?” well the problem is, my pickaxe is FUCKED.
crane: but there might be children that are listening !!!
max: well my pickaxe is still FUCKED.
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