the reason that fast food has not been unionized is the same reason that retail hasn't - it doesn't get one closer to communism. don't get me wrong. i hope they get their pay increases. but, this isn't productive work. a socialist society would not have well paid fast food workers; it wouldn't have fast food restaurants at all, because the condition of the labour is destructive to the spirit and, worse, entirely unnecessary. who would do this if they weren't forced to? in socialism, you make your own damned burger....

it follows that there's no end point to this. the struggle exists entirely in the capitalist paradigm, because it's the only system in which such labour is possible.

people need to get the point: we're post-capitalist. post-industrial. markets were the best way to maximize individual freedom in an agrarian society. we've still got people walking around stuck in the eighteenth century, citing economics from two eras ago. socialism was the conversion of liberalism to the industrial revolution; it was the best way to maximize individual freedom in an industrialized economy. it's been the case for several decades now that we're in a post-industrial society defined by the replacement of workers with machines. i'm hereby declaring that the grace period for socialism to adjust to this is now over. if you still think that unions have the ability to reorganize society, you're every bit as clueless.

so, how do we maximize individual freedom in a post-industrial society? nobody's even thinking about this. but, the answer must lie in reacting to mechanization - in putting the robots under common ownership.