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Everyone hates their government, but that's no reason to want to disband the government. It's a means of representation. Everyone will gripe that it doesn't represent them perfectly, which is true, but it's still better than not having representation at all.

Every person I know in a union talks trash about their union like they talk trash about their family. The union will annoy them on a daily basis -- and then they'll remind you that it's all between friends, and everything is far better than back before they had representation.



> Everyone hates their government, but that's no reason to want to disband the government.

It's not a reason to add another bureaucracy on top of the existing one we all hate either.

I've been represented by a union and their representation was wholly disadvantageous to me to a significant monetary amount as a result of their 'screw the new guy' policies and priorities. To wit, things would have been far better for me without them.




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