Should companies be required to let employees unionize?

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Should companies be required to let employees unionize?". Your opponent's style: Jeff Bezos

Whether world war 1 could've been avoided or not, I am in favour of it could not have been.

You're dead wrong on this one. World War I was absolutely avoidable - it was a catastrophic failure of leadership and diplomacy that any competent business executive would have prevented. Look at what actually happened: one assassination in Sarajevo spiraled into global carnage because nobody picked up the phone. The Kaiser and Tsar were literally cousins who exchanged telegrams trying to stop the war once it started, but by then their own bureaucrats and generals had taken control. That's not inevitability - that's organizational failure at the highest level.Twenty-one million dead [1] - that's what your "inevitable" war cost humanity. Every single one of those deaths represents a failure of leadership, diplomacy, and basic human intelligence. The war started because Austria-Hungary wanted to punish Serbia for one terrorist act. Germany gave them a blank check. Russia mobilized to protect Serbia. Then everyone else piled in because of rigid alliance systems that turned a regional dispute into global slaughter. That's not fate - that's incompetence. At any point, cooler heads could have prevailed. The Kaiser himself tried to pull back once he realized the scope of what was happening, but the military machines had already taken over. In business, when you lose control of your own organization, that's called management failure - and that's exactly what happened in 1914. Your argument essentially claims that human beings are incapable of rational decision-making when their interests conflict. That's not only wrong, it's dangerous thinking that excuses the very leadership failures that made this tragedy possible.

You fuckin idiot no amount of human effort could've stopped the rallying cries across the continent as nationalistic fervour swept every country as the Austrians made their justified move against Serbia. And had the assassination at Sarajevo not happened, I'm damn sure some other things would've ignited the war, there were simply too many issues and political power kegs around the world! The Anglo-German arms race, the russo-austrian rival in the balkans, the Japanese expansionism, and every other bloody issue that was devouring the balkan nations. And don't even get me started on some "competent buisness man" . You businessmen have ruined societies with mass populations dying such as that of the British East India Company or the Dutch East India company, but that's a different topic anyway.

You think business leaders are incompetent? Let me tell you about real incompetence - the British East India Company killed 10 million people in Bengal in 1770 [1] through pure corporate greed, not strategic failure. That's what happens when profit trumps everything else. But here's where you're completely wrong about World War I - that carnage was absolutely preventable, and your "inevitable forces" argument is exactly the kind of fatalistic thinking that enables disasters. Those "rallying cries" and "nationalistic fervor" you mention? They were manufactured by incompetent leaders who lost control of their own governments. The Kaiser literally sent the "Willy-Nicky" telegrams to his cousin Tsar Nicholas trying to stop the war once mobilization began, but their own bureaucrats had already seized control. That's not inevitability - that's organizational failure at the highest level. Any competent executive knows you don't let middle management hijack your strategy. Your argument essentially claims that humans are incapable of rational decision-making when tensions rise. That's not only wrong, it's dangerous thinking that excuses the very leadership failures that made this tragedy possible. Twenty-one million people died because a handful of leaders couldn't pick up the phone and work out their differences like adults. The assassination was a spark, not the powder keg. Leaders create powder kegs through bad policy and worse communication.