Billie “That said, unions are the only thing standing between the workers and the bullying tactics of large employers who want to cut wages, cut working conditions, make work places unsafe and increase their profit.”

Is that a quote from the unionist propaganda handbook, 1917?

Firstly

Unions are not the arbiters of employment conditions, government is, through employment laws.

Most employers understand that to keep good people, they need to do more than just the minimum or the good will go to the competition (another reason for encouraging flexible employment terms, like being able to take your superannuation with you, instead of having it as a golden handcuff to the present employer).

Employers pay insurance and their premiums sky-rocket with a poor safety record, to say nothing of the natural compassion of people and the fact that when an employee is not working, the employer does not have the benefit of the employees effort.

“In 400 years time people will probably view communal action as the greatest achievement of the 20 century,.”

Communal Living will be, like most other failures with no one to champion them, largely forgotten, particularly communism, unless someone keeps it alive as a warning about absolute power as happens with the Inquisition.

I doubt you can recall much “social organization” of the 16th Century.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_century

Highlights were

commencement of the commercial revolution, basically the exploration and colonization by Europeans, particularly of the “New World”.

Martin Luther and Henry VIII ticked off the Pope.

Russia descended into anarchy (some things never seem to change)

Union of Utrecht established Holland.

French ended their religious wars with the edict of Nantes.

In 400 years this century will be remembered for the first manned flight, first space flight, first atomic bomb / nuclear energy and development of the computer.

On the social level if anything will be remembered it will be the breakdown of the rigid social structures of class which dominated peoples life choices in previous centuries.

Hedgehog , proves my observation,” turkey . . . making a lot of pointless noise.”

Do something creative, practice to become roadkill.