re: #285 Gus 802

Fun labor history fact:

Every member of the crew of the Titanic was paid right up until the moment of its sinking. After that, no matter if they were attempting to save passengers in a lifeboat, they weren’t paid for it. And of course no medical expenses were paid for. And if they accepted any money from any of the passengers as a thank-you for having saved them, they were deemed to be corrupt and evil and shunned from society for having taken a bribe.

Fun times! Let’s do that again. Let’s go back to when, after a ferry sank in Lake Michigan, a court ruled that the families were entitled only to payment from the worth of the ferry at that point— the ferry that was sitting on the bottom of the lake. So they each got about $20 per dead husband/father. And of course the funeral expenses were not paid for by the company either.

Let’s pretend like the competition between labor and capital is a fair one, and ignore reality.