> Well, since they’ve been increasingly unionized, they moved places like Texas (Tesla, SpaceX etc) and China.
And yet Germany with some of the strongest unions in the world is a manufacturing powerhouse, and plenty of ununionized countries have very weak manufacturing. So something else must be going on.
> Take the medical industry, for example - they can’t exactly go on strike, yet they are the highest paying industry in most countries. Which goes to show that unions aren’t necessary.
Friedman famously described the AMA as the strongest union in the country, so that's the opposite of showing unions aren't necessary.
And yet Germany with some of the strongest unions in the world is a manufacturing powerhouse, and plenty of ununionized countries have very weak manufacturing. So something else must be going on.
> Take the medical industry, for example - they can’t exactly go on strike, yet they are the highest paying industry in most countries. Which goes to show that unions aren’t necessary.
Friedman famously described the AMA as the strongest union in the country, so that's the opposite of showing unions aren't necessary.