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  • One of the major uses for unions was to give mobsters a steady paycheck. Every Union working on a big civil construction project would inflate their budgets by a few extra men, and those jobs would go to mobsters.

    There were two types of jobs. In the first type, the guy had to show up to the job site, but he didn’t have to work. Union guys from the old days can tell you about the 3 or 4 guys who did nothing but play cards all day. These jobs went to the lower level workers, often younger, just so they would have a “normal” looking life, and a regular paycheck.

    The second type were “ghost” jobs, where the workers never even showed up. These went to the higher level guys, who might hold multiple ghost jobs simultaneously.

    Then they would also steer contracts to mobbed-up suppliers, with inferior products, shorted orders, bribes, etc.





  • I used to work in management for a Fortune 100 company, and they’d send people around for little afternoon management seminars on one thing or another (usually sexual harassment stuff).

    One day, one of the visitors mentioned that money wasn’t even in the top 5 reasons that people work, and tried to move on from that, but I stopped them, and made them repeat it, and then said “Well that’s not true at all. It’s literally the ONLY reason ANYONE goes to work.”

    They tried to argue it, but I just said "If it’s a Payday Friday, and the boss doesn’t hand out the paychecks, and tells everyone that there won’t be any future paychecks, but they’ll see everyone on Monday, the boss will walk into an empty office on Monday. Nobody works for any reason other than a paycheck "

    And that was a great job, that almost everybody reading this would enthusiastically grab without thinking twice, but nobody is going to do it for free.