Yes, let's talk about individualism and the debt owed to the labor movement.
Let's talk about a jobs pool. Specifically, let's talk about certain Detroit labor movements that negotiated their way into having thousands of "jobs" paying $30 bucks an hour to sit and do nothing all day. Boy, that sure is good for people, doing crossword puzzles all day long. With benefits.
What a perversion of "labor" movement.
Proponents say "These people would be starving without us!" but what they're really doing is killing the American car industry just like they killed the American steel industry. No company in it's right mind would ever want to locate somewhere they're forced to pay millions for NOTHING.
My own personal experiences with the "labor" movment:
I worked at a company that did trade shows at various convention centers around the country. These convention centers are invariably union staffed.
You can't move furniture, touch a wire, stack boxes, NOTHING - all work must be done by the appropriate union rep/workers. So, you wait all day for 1 line of CAT5 to be run, and the "labor" movment manages to invariably drive staples through it, or crimp it, or leave it exactly where your customers can trip over it. Don't like it? Tough - if you fix it yourself, that generally means you will get abosolutely NOTHING else done for you, if not outright sabotage.
I've also worked at union shops. Let me tell you how they treat people who don't agree with the union - physically assaulted, their cars vandalized, threating phone calls to their wives and children, it never ends.
While working a temp job (6 month contract) I personally had the temerity to change a fucking lightbulb (which requires 2 electrical union guys for what reason?) which ended up with such a debate that I quit early. A lightbulb.
So why exactly are unions a good thing? Let's see - they provide a structure for abuse, a total lack of motivation to do better (seniority rules!), they artificially inflate the cost of product creation, and provide more incentive for companies to outsource or hire illegal immigrant labor.
What a great deal! Sign me up!