“Teamsters get paid and others suffer?”
I suspect union seniority is a major reason why Detroit became Destroyed.
Early forms of DEI hiring were a major reason nice cities got destroyed. It wasn't so much DEIs at work, but everything outside.
In elementary school, about in second and third grade, young Americans received lots of brainwashing. The classroom lights were turned off and a film projector ran. Some of the messages were: don't litter, don't smoke, nuclear power is good, communism is bad, pledge allegiance to the American flag. Thankfully, most of the brainwashing was conservative. These days, that's definitely not true.
The corporate media did a pretty good job of brainwashing against unions. Unions were consistently demonized over time, and our opinions against them were assigned. Now, it's not so clear unions were always the bad guys they were made out to be. MBA globalist spreadsheet-monkeys have been brutal to Americans, replacing whole professions with cheaper non-American imports.