Cities: Skylines | Franklin, Episode 9: Organized Labor

[@bareakon]

The stuff about Luddites made me realise just how much I was lied to in school.

[@andeve3]

The words Luddite and Anarchist are interesting, because most of the time when they are used they completely ignore what the Luddites and Anarchists actually believed.

[@alliecat6281]

same

[@godoflight558]

yeah Anarchism is never accurately portrayed in schools

[@VexWerewolf]

This is because capitalism has done what it does best - turned a good concept (public education) into an outlet for its propaganda.

[@Xx_BoogieBomber_xX]

Every time anarchism is brought up in schools they say some shit like "It means NO GOVERNMENT and NO RUULES and IMAGINE if SCHOOL had no RULES you'd be FUCKING KILLING EACHH OHTER"

[@gspice4592]

i think we need more people with strong american accents talking about socialism. i like this

[@kentallard8852]

You mean more people from Brooklyn talking about socialism.

[@thereofone]

@@kentallard8852 this is clearly philladelpia

[@CODMarioWarfare]

thereofone I think it was a Chapo reference

[@viktorkardell9366]

Check out Honker3D

[@lespaddick6248]

as a Uk Citizen but more importantly a Scot Where modern Uk Socialism was invented in Edinburgh btw I feel the British model of Socialism has lost it's way I just think the philosophy has become unelectable Since 1956 the advocates of socialism instead of doing socialism have tried to compete with the opposition they've tried to match them in crazy as a result there is a cigarette paper between the two ergo a faux democracy

[@GrijzePilion]

Do you ever find something on the internet that's so fucking funny that it HAS to go in your next video? Well I have a lingering suspicion about the first minute of this video.

[@thatonebigdude271]

Is this the greatest opening to a KZbin video ever? Because I think it's the greatest opening to a KZbin video ever.

[@BeTeeEl]

Yes.

[@devinfaux6987]

I dunno, the one for the Trains episode is a pretty strong contender too.

[@crispyaaron]

I think that intro needs to be its own video if it isn't already!

[@alexandrapedersen829]

Idk the Lindsay Ellis video that just cold opens with a dramatic reading of wolf porn is a pretty strong contender, too.

[@sereminar4]

It's an actual real union. And an actual real advert for it. It's fantastic!

[@jonwatte4293]

"Wages for unskilled workers was kept at a subsistence level." Observation: It can be argued that current federal minimum wage is actually below subsistence level.

[@Tadesan]

yes. poverty is paying 33 percent of your income to rent.

[@nobleherring3059]

No see I saw a poor person with an iphone once so obviously minimum wage is living in the lap of luxury, see

[@samson7294]

Noble Herring yes! Can you believe I saw a McDonald’s worker with Nikes on? Complain about your job yet buy shoes produced by child labor! Hypocrisy much!? I’m very intelligent!

[@PurushNahiMahaPurush]

@@Tadesan lol more like 50%

[@KOLN555]

I recently organized my workplace, and even more recently found out I was not fired/laid off for doing so. So I will happily contribute to your patreon, comrade.

[@oscarstrokosz2986]

Good praxis, friend

[@BCRoff]

Fuck yes!

[@deadmeat1471]

Im currently doing the same as a carer, solidarity.

[@blujitsu2180]

As soon as I heard “teamsters” I felt a long-winded Jimmy Hoffa joke coming up.

[@hexazalea]

yea its kind of a famous urban legend that hes burried under the stadium.

[@mooncrime4998]

donoteat talks in such a deadpan voice and i'm so credulous i was wondering if the story was true

[@tk5800thesecond]

never brake key fabe

[@nekroz_of_super_dora3477]

I know literally nothing about Jimmy Hoffa but the long winded journey and the punchline of “Yet another blow to organized labor by Ronald Reagan” is great and made me laugh.

[@devinfaux6987]

In retrospect it would not have taken me so long to realize the video had segued into a Jimmy Hoffa joke the first time I watched this if I'd known that in 1975, DNE would not be born for another 18 years.

[@augflaw]

I now choose to believe that this is actually what happened to Hoffa.

[@ibbles7766]

So. Many. Row-houses.

[@danielgrayson3360]

That's Phila...err Franklin

[@CODMarioWarfare]

Having been to Franklin IRL, that's pretty accurate

[@williamchamberlain2263]

'Townhouses' in Australia, 'terraced houses' in the UK.

[@nikola8363]

I suggest you put some trams around the 1880s so that you could take them out in the 50s and rant all about crony capitalism and GM

[@Larmothewierd]

that happened in my city a lot of the old roads have lots of space between directions because there used to be a trolley line down them

[@TheSamgo]

It seems that lots of trams got shut down in the us in favor for busses or subways, is there a reason for it? I live in a big rush city and trams are still very prevalent as a main public transportation

[@Vletra]

I love how nowadays people start realising that trams are good My country was under Soviet control during the cold war so we never lost our trams I'm kinda surprised how rare trams are in the west when they are cheap and efficient

[@MikeDiEva]

@@TheSamgo Because cars and highways and the freedom of not being oppressed by a transit timetable.

[@Graknorke]

@@MikeDiEva Expressing my freedom by sitting still in traffic for an hour every day to get to work.

[@AllatumD]

Bongocat is a good excuse for being late, forgiven.

[@Grayhome]

Wonderful video. I have a coworker who used to work in a union that did nothing but give more working hours based on seniority, and what he came away with was "Unions are only good for bad workers." So he ended up paying union dues AND getting less pay from the company than he would have if he did not have to be in a union. I'm not sure what kind of union it was, but by your description, it seems to have been a craft union. If a union doesn't represent the needs of the entry-level employees and the needs of the senior employees, it's not worth shit. These unions give unions a bad reputation.

[@KevinSmith-qi5yn]

It's because Unions don't have a use today. Most established business is already working within the margins and maximizing employee pay in order to retain a skilled workforce. You can't really say, I want someone to work 10 hours a day 7 days a week for $400 per week and expect to get anyone to work for you. For example if you are a screen printer, you can't exactly get away with paying your employees minimum wage and expect to find qualified replacements if they decide to leave. The only sectors were this works is in low-skilled labor as learning the job is a quick process. The US also operates with a lot of small businesses so a large organized strike isn't something that's possible for most employees. Under these conditions, unions don't really have a use but they want to continue existing. So you really have 2 types of unions that popped up. Those who are more like an HR department for the company. Then political unions that don't really represent their workers, but their own self interest to continue existing.

[@TriegaDN]

I live in Metro Detroit, and people who have worked in retail with unions, sometimes end up with a bad impression of unions, but people who work under a union like the UAW tend to think very favorably of them. Opinions of unions are all over the place here, and on a national level even, a lot of people blamed the UAW for the auto industry running into trouble back in the recession. We're a 'right to work' state for the past few years, so there is that too!

[@Aushin]

Businesses are not in the practice of "maximizing employee pay" LOL

[@KevinSmith-qi5yn]

Businesses are in the practice of retaining a workforce for the lowest amount possible. But retaining the workforce is their priority than how much they pay. This usually results in a salary going to the market rate due to competition for labor. In the current economic environment with the lowest amount of jobless claims in 49 years and the most amount of vacant jobs in US history, you have to raise your salaries or lose your workforce. At any company, losing experienced workers for a non-entry level position can cost your company a lot more than that employees pay.

[@Abigflamingstink]

alternatively you just go to your biggest competitor and agree to not poach each other's workers to keep the level on compensation at a suppressed rate. Or you threaten your workers that if anyone even dare speak the U word that you will close the entire shop rather than let them organize for the hope of better wages. Or you actually do so if they dare say the U word. Or you break every single labor law your industry has passed in order to engage in rampant wage theft because your business model is predicated on sucking blood from your workers and your local community and you know that the legislature will never fine you more than the potential wage theft, wait no i mean you disrupt your industry with a cool app. wait no i mean you tolerate sexism and abuse within every level of you organization up to and including the executive level, up to and including literal rape because that made Ayn Rand moist or something. I was going to reference the guy who bankrupted sears at this point but that was really just a fucking insanely stupid capitalist who decided to burn eight billion dollars of his own net worth because Ayn Rand is the only thing that gives him a stiffy. tl;dr - stfu liberal

[@dfskle]

As a Wob myself, I can say your only real inaccuracy about the IWW is that bosses aren't the only people who can't join. We also don't allow cops or prison guards. No class traitors in my solidarity union. Also I fucking love this series, keep up the great work!

[@stevensnyder3075]

Thank you for being inclusive of my non-binary UPS delivery person

[@MammaApa]

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[@alantonix213]

@@MammaApa What?

[@Srymak]

@@alantonix213 It's in binary, translates to "What the hell are you talking about!?"

[@rorybyrne86]

@@MammaApa You better null terminate that string, friend.

[@markhaus]

Non binary just means we need more than one binary digit to represent gender. Don’t worry information theory is still valid - and if anything information theory brings credence to the fact that binary gender is insane there's just way too much variation.

[@paulirvine9582]

Without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turn!

[@flameoguy]

We can break their haughty power, gain our freedom when we learn: The Union makes us strong!

[@Firefox_42]

Solidarity forever, solidarity forever! Solidarity forever, for the union makes us strong!

[@Gigantic_homo]

stronger than the power of armies magnified a thousandfold

[@immafriedric3]

We can build a new world from the ashes of the old.

[@frankwachtel3612]

For the names of rivers, why not also go about building the name from history. Like a city, names are rarely uniform, clean, and built from authority. Rivers are particularly fickle things to name, as the English and American colonizers saw a river as a continuous named single body of water, so a silly local name for a stream could turn out to become the official name for a huge river and/or lake. Most tribes in the Americas didn't name rivers like this, rather only naming certain notable parts of the river, like a safe crossing or a place where animals gather. Also, names get changed and mistranslated over the years. The Bowery neighborhood in New York City is a bastardized version of the dutch word "bouwerij", meaning farmhouse. Further complicating things, there were no standardized geographic maps used by the government till the early to mid 19th century, which means all though the colonial period and beyond people were just straight up using different names for the same river. The Hudson River was called the North River by the Dutch for over a hundred years. For an actual name suggestion, figure a Norwegian trader asks a indigenous person for the name of a river, but though a misunderstanding, the native american says tùkhòne, the Lenape word for a bend in the river. The Norwegians take on the name, but it slowly becomes Uknappet, a Norwegian word that they find much easier to pronounce. Then when the English take over, it becomes Napett river. If this is even remotely interesting, I'd recommend the book Names on the Land by George Stewart. Thanks for the series, and sorry about the wall of text.

[@booketoiles1600]

"What's this ? Asked the explorer, pointing the river. -*Obviously that's a river you dumb fuck* -What a lovely sounding name, thank you for your help, simple folk."

[@Qwicksilver]

Given that Franklin is a thinly veiled representation if Philadelphia, I’d rather he use another sound-alike just like many of the other landmark names. Maybe the Strudel or the Bushel. Or the Kugel.

[@TalenGryphon]

Or he could follow the Captain Vancouver method and name places after what pissed off one British explorer: Deception Pass, Useless Bay, Point No Point, Cultus Bay (Useless, but in the local Native language), Foulweather Bluff, Puget Sound (The navigator responsible for his misfortune), Port Gamble, Danger Shoal, Friday Harbor ("What bay is this?!" "Did he ask what day is this? 'It's Friday, right?") Straight of Juan De Fuck-This-shit we're going home Every time I get sad, I amuse myself by considering how much my state pissed off one British dude, and think "At least I'm not that guy"

[@Larmothewierd]

I grew up near a creek called NANJEMOY witch to my understanding was a tribal word (not sure witch) for 'haunt of the racoon' always found it interesting

[@dominiccasts]

As a resident of the Vancouver area, I surprisingly hadn't learned this, but it makes a huge amount of sense.

[@Pillsfordrills]

sorta just stumbled upon this series and i gotta say i have fallen in love, really loving the political commentary. too many channels try to steer away from politics but in today's climate it just feels incredibly cowardly to stay "apolitical"

[@bingisbahn3374]

Many people are just not educated in politics

[@XRXaholic]

Personally, I work in the Javascript tannery. We mix shit with animal parts and get stack traces.

[@61636]

Would definitely buy that tee design and also one that simply reads "RENT CONTROL"

[@YAYKUTTEL]

Or with the header; solutions to housing crisis then with all of them listed with rent control mentioned several times in increasing font size

[@HotBlasterBot]

Here's some suggestions for the rivers: Trans-BongoCat River NotDelaware River Joint-ale-knee-on (pronounced J O I N A U N I O N) River Sure they are joke names, but at least they are joke river names.

[@NavidIsANoob]

Also, are you regularly taking screenshots of the city from established angles? That way, you can compile a time lapse which would be sick.

[@GrijzePilion]

Even though it's hardly an obscure bit of history, it's still interesting to consider that the looming threat of automatization is at least, if not more than, 200 years old.

[@CaptainCharlotte69]

Not if we seize the means of production. Then it's fully automated luxury gay space communism.

[@xalrath]

insha'allah

[@kentallard8852]

Europe with its strong Unions, that are much more militant and involved in politics through Labor Parties, gets plenty of infrastructure built at much lower costs.

[@LobsterminatorX]

This episode especially would work amazingly well in podcast form, because you don't allude much at all to what you are building. Great series.

[@flameoguy]

I'm hoping he will focus more on what's being built in later episodes.

[@TsurioProsper]

if this was a podcast i wouldnt really listen to it cuz i dont follow a single podcast. as a baby millenial i need some video to keep my attention; otherwise i pretend i did.

[@technoserf_digital]

@donoteat Very unlikely you'll ever go back to this video and happen to see this comment, but please know that this video literally changed my life. So much valuable information here that I've never been exposed to. Thank you for the work that you do!!!

[@lastweektonightwithoutthet650]

7:04 "which is part of why organized labor couldnt develope without industrialized capitalism" It feels like your'e skimming over the rich history of episodic peasant revolts that would crop up over and over again throughout the middle ages and early industrial. Agricultural workers are still workers, and their relationship to their lords, be them feudal, state, noble, or private are parallel to the industrial worker vs capitalist owner.

[@xalrath]

eh. peasant revolts tended to be of the "if only the czar knew" variety. the goal was never to change the underlying system, but rather to replace the god-king with a newer, shinier god-king who's slightly nicer to us. organized labor was a response to a new system developing, and people realizing it couldn't be fixed by just putting a better person in charge of every aspect of your life.

[@lastweektonightwithoutthet650]

Yankee Ice what? no not at all dude. though each specific peasant rebellion has its own contexts, grievances, and reasons, there where some that were especially radical they literally took over cities, and communally functioned for months and years before the nobles were able to organize (usually) foreign militia to kick them out they literally stopped working the lord's fields and went off to live in the woods in strike protests (from which they also made gorilla raids on nobles) during some of the episodes of england's process to "democratize" there were literal proto anarchists who found themselves betrayed as soon as the new powers came to be it is widely believed tales like Robin Hood were actually stories of such conflicts, and only over time where the stories retold to be about unseating "unrighteous nobility" with righteous nobility" Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch, does a decent job in mentioning a lot of these conflicts

[@xalrath]

NoticeMeSenpai color me informed

[@theothertonydutch]

Color me red ;)

[@nakenmil]

A bit late on this, but peasant rebellions often had to do with (perceived or real) slights to what they saw as their traditional rights. They could be tax-based, or freedom of movement, who had the right to verify laws, access to courts, rights of complaint, etc., etc. Medieval societies sometimes get presented as if the nobility just made up laws on the spot and could do whatever they wanted, but in reality it was a complex environment of long-standing, often localized traditions that people were VERY keen on preserving. A lord might for example be unable to tax a certain good if there was a local tradition of not taxing it. If he tried - well, look to the descriptions above. In the case of Norway, it took at least three centuries before the country went from being unified to there being a single law code for the entire country (prior to that, each district had its own Thing, a traditional meeting point that acted as a mix of parliament, bazaar and legal court, and they had quite differing law codes). And that was considered FAST by medieval European standards.

[@EasternMarshLands]

this intro creates more class consciousness then most of the lefttube combined. I found myself deeply relating to it.

[@dan8085]

I feel ya.

[@Arturo005100]

good old times when donoteat actually posted content i miss em

[@aturchomicz821]

that good old Religion got to his head smh

[@rpktoday]

this has become not only my favorite cities skylines channel but also my favorite youtube channel in general. ABOLISH ICE

[@CrudusViscus]

God bless the union.

[@lastweektonightwithoutthet650]

inb4 Collosal Order unveils the new Social Unrest DLC

[@simongiavaras7787]

>Collosal Order >Social Unrest 🤔🤔🤔

[@Breadmaker332]

I love how on Hoffa's passage map there was a layover in Atlanta.

[@TuckerWhite94]

Well as the old saying goes in Dixie, "Whether you're bound for Heaven or Hell, you'll get there via Atlanta."

[@Oldage429]

Company Unions are apparently pretty common in Japan, and are used to prevent the formation of industrial and even craft unions

[@aturchomicz821]

Capitalist Utopia moment

[@dallasjacob99]

I’m the local ups guy I just work small sort though

[@HisCarlnessI]

The people in charge of the school district my mother works for used the fact that teachers and paras had separate unions to avoid paying out money they were legally obligated to... The entire county had been sued for failing to meet Washington's state constitutional obligation for fully funded schools. Part of the issue is that those working for the school district were receiving well below a fair wage, even analysed conservatively. Most city school districts took their funds and used them for what the state court stipulated they do, raises of a certain percentage. My city's school district took the money to pay back debt from mismanagement of funds before and during the recession, i.e covered their asses for past mistakes. They used the fact that Teachers, Paras, and other staff were all in separate unions to divide and conquer, giving each less of a raise then they were legally ordered by the court to give, with the worst short changing happening to the weakest unions. It was... something. First time I've shown up to support a strike.

[@harryjewers]

Trains 2: electric boogaloo

[@tily5939]

That first clip was awesome.

[@TheDarthMoogle]

Hey, loving the series so far! Just a quick thing, some of the lighting issues and pop-in you're experiencing is due to the More Flags mod. Taking that off should remove some of the more annoying visual artefacts.

[@jamesty1992]

so glad you made the point about tech not being bad, just how one benefits etc, etc. so many people just don't get that concept.

[@gabdraws7003]

Coming back to rewatch this series I forgot it helped radicalize me

[@snowdevil002]

If you were my teacher, I would have paid attention in high school.

[@lmjohnsono]

Always wondered what actually happened to Jimmy Hoffa.

[@concrete_dog]

This whole video has been a wild ride. Thank you. All I learned in school was maths and biology and language. I never knew sociopolitical history could be this interesting and I never knew how much they simply didn't tell us in school before they sent us to our 9-to-5 jobs for the rest of our lives.

[@Sam-lr9oi]

Oh man, imagine how cool Cities Skylines would be with labor politics.

[@alexonstott4954]

Big fan of the series so far, but it would have been nice to hear about how unions effected the development and planning of cities. Lots of sources have covered this topic, and without connection to the original premise, this is a bit less special. Still going to keep watching and donating though!

[@Huntracony]

Yeah, the IWW has no branch in my region, because it's the Industrial Workers of some of the World, apparently. Oh well, I don't have a job anyway.

[@fishyface3940]

My town in South West England boomed because of Luddite vandalism to a Loughborough (near Nottingham) factory around 1813, whose owner already developing the site in our town, decided to relocate his entire operations to us including it's staff about 200 miles by foot and horse and cart. Love hearing about this era of history, so interesting. The factory is still there, my family worked there and I grew up in a victorian factory workers house, not too dissimilar from the square back to back terraces you're building here. Also rented from the factory at a reduced rent due to my father working for the company. Still anti-capitalist here though!

[@fishyface3940]

Also call the rivers the River Ouse or River Trent after that part of the UK's North Midlands.

[@ArninoStorm]

I wanna know where that opening video is from.

[@donoteat01]

joke reel from a public access tv station from many years ago kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWTQqGdvotCSrpI

[@chaseman113]

Holy shit, that fucking intro. Jokes aside, the Franklin and Power & Politics series are fantastic.

[@TreyaTheKobold]

okay what the hell is up with that bit on Jimmy Hoffa

[@OW3NS93]

This may still be a few decades/episodes away, but will you talk about early American urban politics (i.e. the first city councils, mayors, political machines, and party bosses) in the near future?

[@kireclebnul]

hahaha plebis

[@alexroselle]

13:40 reminds me of the title of one of my favorite anarcho-communist pamphlets, "You Can't Blow Up a Social Relationship" PS Loving your channel and this series so far!

[@michelottens6083]

Your CG model city, in scale and complexity, has become awe inspiring. Thank you for this video.

[@60Pagoda]

Thinking about this channel got me through the hearing yesterday. It leveled out my feeling of impending doom and dread with a reminder that in fact times have been far darker. Thanks. Patreon sub incoming.

[@60Pagoda]

And I actually did it too.

[@GrijzePilion]

Also I believe the labor rights movement is a major part of the next (upcoming) Anno game, Anno 1800. It's looking really interesting.

[@baronjutter]

Probably as an obstacle/disaster since you play the guiding force of imperialistic capitalism in those games.

[@GrijzePilion]

Eh, I don't mind playing as an evil capitalist imperium in video games because it's not real anyway. And I'm a pretty nice oppressor at that.

[@baronjutter]

Yeah, it would be cool if we could actually click all the right buttons and establish some sort of turn Paris Commune situation.

[@JayWhiteMadden]

Just found this channel. Now I realize how long it's been since I could feel.

[@lyssam100]

I was surprised when you described craft unions as the most common and business as the most important forms of union in America - here in Australia industrial unions are definitely the norm. Shoppies' union, construction workers' union, education union, etc.

[@nomoney181]

man I love this series

[@stockicide]

I wasn't aware the Luddites were an actual group. I just thought it was an expression. Shows how much I was taught in school.

[@KoRMaK1]

A new franklin AND new season of serial drops in the same day! It's a rare good day to be a clevelander

[@KoRMaK1]

Hoooo shit, and it's like the length of an episode of an hbo show too. nice

[@feyss3]

A nice serie that you've got there. Making a city that evolves through time is always an interesting project. It reminds me a lot of what people used to with Sim City 4 during its golden age.

[@MrCarpelan]

How did I discover this amazing channel? You're hitting the nail on its head here by saying that its foolish to think it is anything other than a structural, deeply rooted problem.

[@youmustbethatninja]

Can you talk about German unions at all? Maybe on a bonus episode?

[@Aldowyn]

He mentioned the guilds, and curious to think about how modern german corporatism is ideologically descended from the guild system, so I'd definitely be interested

[@tzarcoal1018]

@@Aldowyn I am German and i am not sure what you mean by ideologically dsecended, but it sounds interesting to me. Can you explain it? (some people still respond to 8 months old comments so it might not be useless to write this)

[@Aldowyn]

@@tzarcoal1018 Luckily for you I haven't bothered to turn off notifications for replies! unluckily I don't really have a developed theory behind that comment. I was just thinking about how the guild system and the unions and industry groups in the modern german system seem comparable. Like, the ruling class - the feudal lords in the late middle ages and the political parties and financial classes now - bargain with combined groups of the producing class to create a tenable compromise.

[@tzarcoal1018]

​@@Aldowyn Personally i would not see such of a connection. In the medieval period over 90%!! of the people were farmers, the class model of our time did not exist back then. Most of the farmers were pretty poor and many were not free man. It is not easy to say who was the production class, simply because there was not much production how we define it today. Most tasks were done by the farmers themselves And the percentage of craftmen was pretty low. The members of the guilds were part of the third estate (1. members of the clergy/ 2. Nobility) same as the farmers, but they were still among the wealthier people of that time and they were all free men, unlike most farmers.They were part of the production class since nobody really produced something other than food.Their situation varied a lot depending on the proffesion and if they lived in a rural area or in a town. If they lived in a town the status of the town was important and how much it was under the control of the feudal lord....etc ...but craftsman and traders could become pretty wealthy. Look up the Hanseatic League if you are interested they actually fought wars,and won some aginst the Kingdom of Denmark. From the perspective of the feudal rulers the guilds were maybe an obstacle if they wanted to exploided the craftsmen. But from the perspective of the farmers they possible could be described as an cartel that could dictate prices. You can interpret it both way, either the Guilds protected the interest of the people against the feudal ruling class and towns or they were part of the upper class, not based on royal blood or being part of the clergy, but based on their position and wealth relative to the farmers. In my opinion you simply can not compare it to our time and try to find the parallels. In the medieval time a working class did not exist. There is not another fact about Guilds, they were not open to anybody. In most places they were laws in place that made the membership mandatory and sine the guild did not except all, they keept all others not in a guild from doing that job legally. One of the groups excluded were Jews. And because getting interest from money was against Christianity and forbidden for christians (noone cares about that one anymore) jews started money lending businesses and early banks. Which was the starting point of the high percentage of jews in the financial world which is also partly responsible for lot of mistrust and discrimination against jews because they were blamed to be all filthy rich. Unions in Germany developed very simlar to unions in England, both started after the industrial revoultion after the percentage of farmers in the population dropped and a Working Class emerged. The History of the oldest still existing Party SPD is tied with the history of Unions. Today the party got more and more toothless and recently they dropped massivly in approval. I would say Germany today is not such a hostile nation for Unions like the USA, the general population is approving Unions much more, and most most companies are not opnely anti unions. So one bit you are right is the enable compromise. However the problem that "Unions are protecting the work place and not the worker" is pretty much the same in Germany. The second problem is that most traditional jobs in the Industry are unionized almost all jobs in the service sector are not. The people with th worst conditions here work not in a factory but deliiving parcels, cleaning offices or something like that. Another problem is the outsorcing of productions to small corperations without contaracts with a union or the practice of pseudo self employment. Unions are accepted and seen as a good thing by many people, but they are getting more and more toothless. In the past they were more influential.

[@AlmightyRamtha]

It's really great to see that the guy from the Shane Company commercials is a big lefty now. Proud of you.

[@KhasAdun1990]

I'm getting the education of a lifetime with these videos, but I can't help but wonder if at the end of this series you're gonna say something like "And that's how a city is formed."

[@derekliljequist1086]

Bourgeoisie Blood River

[@kazmark_gl8652]

the IWW is quite possibly the only group I wouldn't mind achieving world Domination.

[@DonCDXX]

I wonder if Luddites were opposed to technology...

[@parkerc9816]

I wonder if extreme Christians oppose education

[@DonCDXX]

As a general rule, religion and facts are diametrically opposed.

[@dylanchouinard6141]

DonCDXX as a general rule, don’t say religion when you just mean Christianity. I don’t mean to sound mean, but I’m just tired of peoples cultural Christianity effecting how people view all other religions

[@floatingstudio6363]

Actually, old Jimmy did leave Nicaragua in 1987 for a quiet place in Guatemala where I met him in the summer of 1988. He kind of retired and we had a couple of beers, talking about the good old times.

[@TheHammockProduction]

was recommended this by bombsfall and its a very chill video to listen to and really cool city footage. love it.

[@Zaswarley]

you're killin it dude keep it up

[@jasonfifi]

i'm so stoked for the killdozer ep. dude was a hero for the working class.

[@TalenGryphon]

He needs to do a barrel roll and put Sky King in there too

[@jasonfifi]

@@TalenGryphon sky king didn't require as much planning, and it seemed like it was "caused" or at least triggered by being passed over for a raise/job. i don't like to compare the 2, because killdozer was a business owner, went to tradeschool, did everything the bootlickers tell us we're supposed to do to exist and thrive under capitalism. real bootstraps guy. he shows the cracks in the system better than almost any other story, because during his fight against real estate predators and the city that did their bidding, he would have lost everything they like to tell us we can have. skyking just read racist stuff online and while he would have probably grown out of that type of shit in a few years and he was probably a cool kid that just had a bad vocabulary for explaining his despair or the causes there-in, either way, he didn't put up a fight against that system, he just displayed that it exists. but yeah, it may still bear mentioning.

[@franciscojcsa6127]

Neh, he wasn't Do you want the link to the Video?

[@QuaZdk]

Ok! ... Ok, ok ok! .. I've now watched all 9 current episodes and started watching "Power, Politics & Planning" episodes ... I love your content! It took me 9 cups of coffee to get through the first episodes, given it'll take me another cup of coffee per PPP ep. that adds up to 12 cups o_O ... I only see it as fair that I forward those cups of coffee to you under the promise that I'll pay up front in the future via the Patreon! .. So again, thank you! Thank you for this great content and I hope the 12 cups of coffee will bring you as much delight as your videos have brought me.

[@atomixfang]

I just binged watched all your videos, very interesting content.

[@V8Murder]

15:08 where did they go? were they compensated? are they on the streets?

[@donoteat01]

i'd hope the first but probably the second, if they'd managed to move in speculative housing still works that way in dubai, btw, y'all have no idea if your house will actually be built

[@TheRIZKYRAMA]

i think this is my new favourite cities skyline series

[@H4hT53]

Silly man...EVE Online doesn't have guilds...it has corporations!

[@charonsferryold]

PARADOX NEEDS TO ADD RIOTS TO CITIES SKYLINES!

[@DonCDXX]

This was pretty cool. Future video request: an analysis of the evolution of labor automation and related worker conditions while building a large space station in Space Engineers.

[@QwertyCaesar]

Damn you, when they shut down the meadowlands I spent all night was digging up the ten year line hoping that I'd get labour organizing superpowers. Broke my back over nothing.

[@NavidIsANoob]

You are incredibly funny, informative, unashamedly partisan but still true to your sources, and you are an amazing city designer. This is without a shred of doubt the best channel on KZbin. Consider me subscribed as fuck. And when I finally decide to become a patron for the first time, it's you I'm giving money to. Also, your editing skills are sick.

[@VRSVLVS]

It's always interesting to hear about how unions are split in the Anglo-Saxon world. In the Netherlands and many other mainland European countries unions were not divided among lines of industry or craft, but by lines of political doctrine. so there used to be a Socialist union, a protestant union, a catholic union, a communist union and yes, even a liberalist union etc. etc. Now these many unions have mostly coalesced into the FNV (the biggest union, mostly social-democratic-ish), and the CNV, the smaller christian union. the division is still unhelpful.

[@shannonb3499]

Oh hey, that's my union

[@thatguyontheinternet5989]

How about the river Stromme (Flow in norwegian) for the original colonialists

[@jonathanredacted3245]

I knew a teamster, I called him grandpa and he worked in the New York thruway toll booths because Westinghouse folded because the auto industry liked them some cheaper Chinese parts. (Prior to this he was part of one of the unions that recently clashed with verizon)

[@ChaoticNeutralMatt]

Not my typical content, but very interesting series so far. Don't agree with everything, but it's been very interesting. Looking forward to more.

[@goodluckgorsky3413]

The intro was probably the most Boston thing I’ve ever heard

[@franciscojcsa6127]

But it was amazing

[@kireclebnul]

more bongo cat more trains

[@xalrath]

let this be the song of our people

[@indoorcoyote]

"cheryl in hr" you'd never guess what my human resources manager is named.

[@IchKomentiereNur123]

4 hour work day now!

[@samdaley8484]

Hooray! I was worried about you not uploading on time, but it might be worth it for a longer episode.

[@mooncrime4998]

thanks for speaking so clearly btw! both, like, not muttering and explaining things well! coming from someone who has trouble understanding what people are saying in both regards, you're doing a great job

[@McCbobbish]

You have the craziest stories

[@HallowedError]

Due to my shameful lack of knowledge about Jimmy Hoffa I got really confused for bit.

[@BaronKrool]

That opening is fucking gold.

[@JeremyThunder]

50 minutes oh hell yeah

[@4terrascorned]

my kids keep giving me the side eye when I start laughing. This guy is great.-

[@UNTITLED--T]

Hoffa Hideout Creek

[@RobertKnutzen]

I loved this Jimmy Hoffa story