May 1st – International Workers' Day: Honoring the Labor of All

Happy May 1st to all workers and laborers around the world.

Today is a day to recognize the efforts, struggles, and dignity of every person who works to build, produce, serve, and create. Whether you work with your hands or your mind, in a factory, a field, an office, or at home — your labor matters.

This day reminds us that fair working conditions, livable wages, and respect for workers' rights are not privileges, but fundamental human needs.

We remember those who fought for the eight-hour workday, safer workplaces, and the right to organize. Their sacrifices paved the way for many of the protections we have today — and the fight is not over.

Wherever you are, whatever your job may be: may your work be valued, your voice be heard, and your health and peace be prioritized.

Solidarity to all workers.

Happy May Day!

This^, and may the US one day get those rights.

It is a poor monument to workers to "share" (steal via taxes and under schemes) the fruits of their work. Marxism never helps any workers anywhere. Here's an object lesson. There is a fixed amount of money, say $1000. I share it with 100 people, they get $10. They can buy a sandwich and some fries, food for one day. The sandwich maker now has that money, and that's it for them. I have no money, they have no money, and the guy who made sandwiches just got rich. Hey, I know, let's pay the government to steal it back. The government takes $0.75 of every dollar on taxes (75%), to give only $0.25 to the poor. So now you all have $2.50 instead of $10. You can get a value menu item, I guess. Or, I can invest in a hard worker, teaching him stuff I know. He takes money and saves it. I also make money from nearby towns with his help, so that $1,000 becomes $10,000 and then $50,000. I hire more workers. Each of these saves up, and some of them start their own businesses. They franchise, or they quit and pursue their own dreams. Pretty soon, we have a community that doesn't have a bunch of slums and crappy sandwich shop, but bakers and craftsmen, and people of skill. This money comes from outside (customers) and builds wealth. Wealth in turn circulates and helps others out of poverty. "Sharing" wealth always puts people into poverty, capitalism creates wealth.

And why is there always this raised fist symbol? People who have raised fists have anger issues. 

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Let's celebrate May Day instead.

Take a day off, go dance for fertility or whatever.

Bulma, could you please stop acting like the capitalists' strawman? Is this the first time in your life you've seen a May Day poster?

Capitalism is the most primitive economic model in the world, placed at the service of Zionism to control the world. In ancient times, countries became wealthy through barter systems. Essentially, barter is the only way to fully and completely receive the value of labor and world trade. In fact, the capitalist system was originally based on this. In the past, when buying a product, you would pay with gold or silver. When the global currency, the dollar, was first introduced, it was backed by gold. However, the Americans discovered a loophole in the system and, after making the dollar the global reserve currency, started printing it without any backing.

Today's savage capitalism emerged exactly when the dollar began to be printed without backing.

If money has backing, labor has no backing.

There's an LGBT day in Israel, Bulma. Take Jura with you—you two can go there.

Unfortunately god decided it's gonna rain today on labour day

So, the US at its inception was an experiment in levelling, no more kings, no feudal system relics, damn the class system, freedom of and from religious institutions, government by the people for the people, and because of that became the darling of masses across the world.
It remained so until after the Second World War.

The increase of US dominance, militarily and financial, led to the rise of American exceptionalism and the gradual decline of the levelling, Labour unions and progressive taxation have been successfully eroded.
By the 1970’s middle class wages started to stagnate, at that time the average CEO made 36 times that of the average worker, by the year 2000 that disparity had rocketed to 1,039 times their workers salary. God knows what it is now.

Greed and propaganda have all but changed the American dream for the majority into a nightmare, the propaganda allied to a woeful education system churns out dumb poor people like BB, inculcated with the lie of trickle down economics and a bastardised religion that actually undermines help for the poor, and the “love thy neighbour” message that the original Jesus seem to espouse.
Unfortunately, this hideous brand of capitalism is spreading outwards.

Unfortunately god decided it's gonna rain today on labour day

Because God doesn't like socialism.

Now, if you repent and dance around the maypole like good little pagans, God may call off the storm.

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Wise, I'm not anyone's strawman. I actually do believe what I believe. What about you? You say you're a Flat Earther, then you turn around and support a Marxist work holiday, the most globalist thing you can do.

Why is the wrench going through the worker's hand?

BTW, US labor day is in September.

I think its important to make a distinction between the system of predatory capitalism we have and capitalism as an idea.

Oh, I sound like a teenage socialist
>Real capitalism has never been tried!
I suppose it has and like any other economic system it succumbs to men's greed and desire for power over others.

I dont think there is a political solution. This is a spiritual question and a spiritual battle.

Unfortunately god decided it's gonna rain today on labour day

The weather was lovely here in Finland. Which it never usually is on May Day.

Hope you all enjoyed your May Day like Justin Timberlake.

I think its important to make a distinction between the system of predatory capitalism we have and capitalism as an idea.

Oh, I sound like a teenage socialist
>Real capitalism has never been tried!
I suppose it has and like any other economic system it succumbs to men's greed and desire for power over others.

I dont think there is a political solution. This is a spiritual question and a spiritual battle.

Real capitalism has been tried. Probably several times. It doesn't fail because of a flaw, it gets sabotaged by hateful envious bastards.

After people were reduced to crap food and rationed everything "for the war effort," the public finally had enough of this crap. Suddenly, the Hoovervilles and the ghettos and all of that crap are gone, and people live in nice little suburban homes. They have cars to drive. They have disposable income. Then the 1960s happen, and we talk about the peace and love movement called the hippies. What we don't mention is how these are the face of socialist share alike principles, but the body of said movement is shown in the yippies, the social progressive radicals who joined radical movements like Weather Underground, NOW, and Black Panthers. These groups tried to stir people up for violent revolt. And you know what? This led into the slum cities of the 1990s.

Socialism has been tried many times. If it doesn't devolve into communism, it still ruins cities worse than a nuke blast.

You are correct, it is a spiritual battle. I would even daresay is a battle for the dignity of workers, and honoring their labor.

Which honors the labor of a farmer more? To pay them good wages to do good work, and the excess is contributed to exports and charity overseas? Or to pay them crappy wages unless they join a union, and then they have to pay union dues, and have to occasionally burn or destroy their crops because surplus, and be paid to do so because of shitty policies. Nobody likes their work wasted, nobody likes stupid rules that was time or energy, and make people feel like their job is bullshit. Nobody likes to want a regular paycheck and instead be told to stop working because today we're striking.

Our Amazon voted against the unions. And I was glad they did it. Actually, they technically didn't vote. There was an announcement to the effect of "there was a consideration about unions, but we decided it's not part of our company culture, so yea."
https://reason.com/2026/05/01/workers-voted-on-decertifying-unions-1600-times-in-the-past-decade-teamsters-are-the-most-common-target/

When you got a job at Lamb Weston, you were subject to the union contract. That's just how it was.

"There's a lot of people that have been there 30, 40 years that are set in their ways and they're union," says Junod. "And I'm like, 'Why are you in the union?' And they're like, 'I don't know.'"

Junod and some of her coworkers began to question that arrangement when they discovered the benefits offered to workers at the nonunion Lamb Weston plant in Twin Falls, a few hours away. Those included more paid sick leave, higher differentials for overnight and weekend shifts, and quarterly bonuses for meeting quotas.

"That's free money, even if it's 20 bucks every quarter," she says. "Why wouldn't I want that?"

Standing in the way: the local Teamsters union.

When workers band together to demand union representation at an Amazon warehouse or at Starbucks, it gets front-page media coverage and provides fodder for think pieces about the class struggle between labor and capital. When the story is workers rising up against a union that has failed to deliver on the promise of better working conditions through solidarity, it tends not to draw as much attention.

But it happens more often than you might think—though the process is not easy, as Junod would learn.

In the Music Man, the main would fondly talk about Gary Indiana (the play is set in 1912). Today? It's voted one of America's most miserable cities. What happened? Same thing that always happens. Unions price the main business out of town, and they decide sweatshops are a better option. Then minorities move into the town which is hollowed out, and crime starts to go up. They call it "white flight" but it has less to do with racism, and more to do with the city being carved out from the inside. Urban sprawl is a vain attempt to refresh a city, but that's like letting a cancer grow when a patient has a heart blackened by cigarette soot. A city needs industry, not just commerce.

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Like this?

Real capitalism has been tried. Probably several times.

Like real socialism, but for whatever reason they end up in the same place.

God knows what it is now.

You sure? I bet only God can judge you. 

Our Amazon voted against the unions. And I was glad they did it. Actually, they technically didn't vote. There was an announcement to the effect of "there was a consideration about unions, but we decided it's not part of our company culture, so yea."

We call this a yellow union, Bulma. It's a type of controlled opposition that appears to defend workers' rights but actually protects the employer's interests. More than half of today's unions are like this. This includes labor movements as well. I can't prove it, but I'd bet that company officials are behind this decision by Amazon workers.

Defending workers' rights isn't Marxism, Bulma. It's a moral struggle and, ideologically, a class struggle. Ideologies like Marxism, socialism, and communism were all produced by the same people who created the concept of capitalism, with the aim of creating hostility toward American culture. But as always, you're trying to demonize me by attributing something I never said and claiming I'm defending socialism or Marxism here.

You attack as if asking why I defend and remind people of the rights of workers and laborers, like Saruman's sword. You spring out of hell like Cerberus and target an angelic person like me.

Get back to the essence of the issue, Bulma: Most people work under terrible conditions, and they get sick and die because of these conditions. Everyone in the world has the right to work in an equal, fair, and healthy working environment. Fight for that. Don't come here acting like the devils' yellow union.

So no one cares that the worker in the poster had their hand impaled by a wrench?  What a bunch of heartless bastards you are.

Germany has probably the best labor relations in the world.

The economy is fully unionised, or near as.

There are no strikes.

There is a fundamental agreement in the market that GDP will generally go up by 2% per year.

Therefore, wage increases are 2% per year across all industries. No more, no less.

What happens if GDP growth fails to materialize in the long term is left unanswered. We might be about to find out.

The economy is fully unionised, or near as.

Only 16% of German workers are in a union.

There are no strikes.

They do have strikes.

There is a fundamental agreement in the market that GDP will generally go up by 2% per year.

Therefore, wage increases are 2% per year across all industries. No more, no less.

This is total nonsense.  Where are you even getting this from?

When the source authors are full of shit, everyone just makes things up as they please. Since no one bothered to look for statistics from an international organization, I'll do the same. Many Turks work in Germany or are German citizens. I once discussed this topic with a friend who is a German citizen, and he told me that everyone he knows (in Germany) is unionized. That's more reliable than your sources.