“I think the libertarians here are the ones saying government shouldn’t stop employers from working people for 100 hours per week for a bowl of noodles a day.”
You see that happening in the USA by rolling back government to it’s constitutionally described limits?
“constitutionally described limits”
That means a lot of things to different people; when it was written it was legal to work people as long as you wanted without paying them at all.
I don’t know why people are so dead set against acknowledging what the labor movement achieved a long time ago when it was necessary; the unions outlived their usefulness when the reforms they demanded became law, but that doesn’t mitigate their earlier accomplishments. I have never belonged to a union, and hope I never do, but I enjoy weekends and a workweek usually of fifty hours. What a sense of entitlement.../s