“I don’t think billionaires should exist,” he said. “No one needs that much money. I think it’s inhumane. Pick any city, walk around, you know, you see people starving, people without basic necessities. There’s no excuse for that. And it’s not because people are lazy or don’t want to work. The billionaires that keep amassing more and more wealth, so they can build rocket ships and do whatever the hell they want to do, that does nothing for humanity.”
“Your critics say that’s class warfare,” said Costa.
“Yeah, class warfare has been going on in this country for the last 40 years – the billionaire class has been taking everything and leaving the working class with nothing,” Fain replied. “Whenever working class people ever step up and say, ‘This is wrong, we want it to stop,’ all of a sudden, Oh, it’s class warfare. It’s the end of the world.”
The UAW has been languishing in the lower depths for years until Shawn Fain brought it into the light and turned it into the being the sort of major union that should be leading a massive labor movement.
I also think he will be a light of hope if Trump gets elected because there’s no way he won’t go down fighting his ass off.