I Build Cars For a Living. I Can’t Afford to Buy One.

My company bills 1h of my time to clients at roughly what I make in almost a week.

Toyota executives was greedy and didn't continue paying their workers fairly and now they are unionizing. They fucked around. Here comes the finding out.

It's so weird to see this. Where I live, unions are a default. It should become the norm everywhere, not just in northern Europe.
- In which country of Western, Central or Southern Europe are unions not a default? Don't know about Eastern Europe.

While everyone should be able to afford basic necessities like a vehicle and wages need to be increased across the board, the title is weird. You can work at a factory making a thing you can't afford and not have much of a problem with that. "I build cruise liners for a living. I can't afford to buy one." would be a strange statement.

Is this video about something only large corporations can afford, or is it about something that is necessary for lots of families to have and seen as normal to buy?
- Please reread my first sentence.

at 0:05: "I totaled a car last week and I can't afford to replace it". I feel like there is a bit of undue entitlement in that statement. Should any worker be able to comfortably replace a car that they destroyed?

I have no love for Toyota or any other mega corp, and I think the bigger issue in this article is the very first statement in the interview: "I spent three and a half years building cars and I can't afford a home yet". That is a big problem, but I wouldn't attribute that to greedy corporate employers exclusively.

This is basically worker alienation that Marx talks about in Estranged Labour.