The Job Market is DEAD: The Only Options Left is Unions & Businesses - And How This Applies to The Left
In order for Americans to survive, the only option left to a quickly dying job market, is abandoning individualism, joining unions, and starting businesses.
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How many more videos do we need to see on our feeds from random people who say “I sent out 500+ applications and got 2 interviews and no follow ups”? How much more should we deal with this dying job market before we realize whats left for us to do? Americans have gotten away with being able to go find work easily in the past, making the need for a union or business “seem unnecessary” - but, that ease was always going to end as the market quickly monopolized and businesses advanced their technology, eliminating the need for most workers.
Rather you want to accept it or not, the fundamental truth always was, the only option to level the playing field was forcing control back into your hands via a union or a business. Especially a union, and especially both if possible.
Market is Dead, What Do We Do Next?:
Since Reagan, one of Satan’s best demons, unions have been under steady attack by the US, corporations, and “right to work” states.
The US job market today is dead, that’s just the truth - and a tactical pivot is necessary for everyone’s self preservation. Boomers will say I’m “fear mongering” but then again they also think a house is still obtainable on a minimum wage job.
A fundamental truth you need to accept is that these older generations don’t have the same connection to modern conditions as you do, especially when they’re of different class status’s. What you should take from the older generations is a bit of knowledge, and analyze it with modern plans & systems in order to survive. Otherwise you’re just going to get led astray by a group of people who are detached from modern reality, using tactics that are outdated, and often aren’t trying to understand modern reality because it makes them uncomfortable.
Since 2021 with the normalization of AI, hundreds of thousands of jobs have been replaced by AI with that number going into the millions by 2030. Just in 2025, tens of thousands have been affected by AI.
I’ll keep this simple: This was inevitable - as long as capitalism exists, it will always find methods and systems to maximize profit and replace workers; and if we know anything from historical analysis, AI (like everything else before it) isn’t going anywhere as long as tech advances. AI isn’t the enemy, capitalism is, let’s not lose focus on that. Additionally, AI isn’t the only thing at fault here. AI is one of the top 5 reasons for layoffs and difficulty to find work, along with that is corporate monopolization and greed. Companies that feel they can operate off limited employees, higher prices, and cover cost where they can, will go those routes to keep from paying too many people, and maximizing profit margins. This especially is most seen today by rampant monopolization and commodification of everything. Again, the issues always tracks back to the roots: capitalism.
So like I said, the only option left is unions & businesses.
Especially & specifically for good paying work. If they’re going to force us to pick those options or suffer homelessness and starvation, then we have to pick what will preserve self-preservation.
-Unions:
Roughly 40-45% union membership is blue collar labor, with the remaining percentage in white collar & public sector industries. Picking a union in either blue collar, white collar or public sector would drastically improve your income because it gives you collective bargaining power. It’s why most companies are actively fighting unionization, and why unionization has declined since Reagan.
Without collective bargaining, employers can abuse and pay you whatever they want, and retaliate against you if you try to get them in trouble. Most of these things are illegal, but if you’re desperate, they feel they can get away with it. Especially if you don’t document it and file a complaint through OSHA or the department of labor. With collective bargaining, it’s far easier to suppress those kind of abuses and protect yourself.
Why Unions?
Unions are the only thing that has allowed workers to make double or even triple what they’d make without a union. Currently, unions are under full on attack, and it requires everyone in them to protect them and expand them across industries. With the collective bargaining power of a union, you can force a company to respect your right to fair pay, treatment, and so on. It’s not enough to support them from the sideline, you need to get involved and force corporate America to listen to workers or lose production from them.
With that said, the most logical step I recommend to all reading this, join a union - whichever one you can find locally and are able to join. You must treat it as a life or death importance - get into a union as soon as possible to secure your longevity.
Will a union be a fix all to everything? No - but it will fix most things and give you better job security than without one. Union workers aren’t exempt from the chaos in the market right now, but they are fairing far better than those without one.
-Businesses:
While you work for the union, in your free time, and if you desire to, you should study all the various things necessary to building a business and launching it. Marketing, philosophy, sales, market research, etc.
If you aim to do an online business, you have to consider that 73% of the global population, 6 billion people, have access to the internet. Giving you a massive potential audience to reach to and provide products or services if you market it right and go for communities who would want what you provide.
If you want a local physical business, it will be a bit more costly and limit you to a smaller potential customer base, but it is still incredibly doable. Unlike an online business, it also comes with a few more things to learn and do, but provide a more formal and personal interaction that customers would value.
Personally, I’d recommend the online business, but if you want local then I would argue doing both - providing what you can locally, and if you can provide anything online, to expand to that market as well.
If you would want to do a business, because not everyone would and that’s fine, always keep in mind this is to further your own survival and not to be like the very class who used this system to make people like you suffer. Provide what you can, use the excess to provide back into those around you. Always stay humble, that you are still like those of the working class. The ultimate goal of all of this is stability and lifting others up.
This Especially Applies to Leftists:
I will be honest, I am incredibly upset by modern “Western leftism” in regards to this subject. This portion of the article will be unapologetic, and is of course not directed at everyone - but is directed at most.
There is no excuse or logical argument for why the Left in America is so drastically underfunded. There is specific people who can’t find better work or get into specific things like businesses or unions due to cost, location, and physical ability - that’s understood. I’m not talking about them in this piece. For most of us, there is no excuse - and here is why I say that:
Hasan Piker is a multi-millionaire, I enjoy his work so this isn’t even a bash at him - but he made a lot of his money from previous work, the donations from his streaming, collaborations, etc.
Kyle Kulinski of Secular Talk, another multi-millionaire, who made a lot of his money from his podcast, YouTube ads, Patreon, media appearances, and sponsorships.
Hakim, literally one of my favorite YouTubers, makes anywhere between $1,000-$4,000 a month from Patreon, and a yearly YouTube ad revenue of $1.5k-$25k. Again, no bashing on the brother, just pointing out something for the rest of you.
Second Thought, one of the biggest Marxist YouTubers, another favorite of mine, makes somewhere between $20k to $50K monthly from Patreon, and yearly ad revenue of $3k-$50k.
Many of you CLEARLY have the money to help a few well spoken figures reach a level of success - and that’s great, but imagine what you could do with more money; the organizations you could fund, the efforts you could assist financially, the structures & programs that desperately need to be built and need the funds behind it to do so. Do you know what the two primary issues of EVERY organization on the Left is? Lack of funds and lack of labor.
I didn’t present these 4 to bash them, I respect what they was able to achieve, by and part, because of our movement’s ability to put money behind their ability to make content and expand reach. I present these 4 to make you, the reader, hopefully a comrade, think deeper about things.
If you are physically able and near any union whatsoever, imagine what you could do if you made double or triple what you do now by joining them and working as hard as you can to make as much as possible.
Say your expenses are $2k-$3k a month, and you start bringing home $6k-$8k a month from the union. You could use some of that to fund into the organization you’re involved with, or start a business to make more and funnel it into an organization you respect or even your local work. Or even your propaganda work if you’re a propagandist.
Even a low-cost business selling digital products (because a lot of you are incredibly talented & knowledgeable), or automated dropshipping (because honestly most products are dropshipped at this point), would significantly increase your chances to stabilize yourselves and fund this movement better.
The point isn’t to be a capitalist, at least not purely, it’s to accept that while we are under capitalism, everything has a cost and it means getting the funds to meet the needs the people have. No movement grows on passion or loyalty alone.
NO SINGLE PERSON puts their trust in a movement who can not financially take care of them and provide safety or order. NO SINGLE PERSON will come to a political side which lacks the funds and structures to accommodate large swaths of people. If the Left cannot provide safety, needs, systems, it will not survive.
Let me make it clear and not hold back:
Our most hostile enemy (the far-right) has been building wealth in the shadows for over 2 decades from infiltrating high paying jobs and radicalizing upset middle class people, and they’re funneling half (or more of) their income into properties, organizations, guns, mutual aid structures, and propaganda. As soon as they have the peak strength, structure and funds, they’ll go door to door on everyone. If the Left cannot fund or supply itself, it cannot lead.
They’re ahead, you have no excuse not to fight like your life depends on it - because at the end of the day, it does.
If you haven’t yet, which is insane if you call yourself a “Socialist” of any variant, joined a union - you need to do that NOW! I don’t care if it’s hard work, your comfort means nothing to all of us workers who are waiting for you to take this seriously. Specifically if you’re physically able to do it.
Start a business, if you don’t know how, study it in depth online. Go for the most affordable and profitable methods possible. I’ll happily consult to teach you as well since I’ve studied this for half a decade now. The issue isn’t that a lot of you don’t know how, it’s a lot of you hate the idea too. Many of you love to praise Engels and don’t want to become Engels - and what’s worse is the purity elitism many of you have, harassing and bullying those among you who are doing it purely for survival; and I know because I’ve seen it and experienced it myself.
If you don’t want to start a business, that’s fine, but for a lot of you, keep your upset feelings to yourself when some comrades want to in order to survive, or fund the cause they care enough about to funnel money towards.
And, most importantly, if you are making good money - invest in the organizations or people who you trust, that are fighting tooth and nail to build towards a new world.
There is no excuse. I, and those like me, have no more patience, watching our enemies advance while most of this movement twiddles their thumbs, wasting time and energy.
That said, the time for re-calibration is now. I firmly believe we can change the current path the Left is on to advance far ahead our enemies - because if we keep doing what we’re doing, we won’t.
Even if half this movement joined unions, launched businesses, joined high-paying white collar jobs, and funneled half their high incomes into organizations and people - buying properties, building mutual aid structures, better centralized propaganda, guns and gear with our own armed security organizations, etc.; it would shake the foundation of everything in a decade. A tight network of these organizations and the labor movement will form, the government wouldn’t be able to act without entire industries shutting down, the far-right would retreat back into the shadows in fear. Nothing would stop us outside of internal sabotage and wreckers - which can be mitigated & suppressed.
The time to re-evaluate everything, to change paths, to devote harder, to build larger - is now. Act now!
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