>>6303931>>6304003>trade union fantasy adventures?>NOIn the annals of economic historiography few will remember how the most commonly known Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay adventure campaign, about insidious chaos cults entitled "The Enemy Within" published originally in 1986, derives from a speech by Margaret Thatcher castigating the 1984-85 Miner's Strikes led by Arthur Scargill
If you look carefully at the cover of that Seumas Milne journalistic account of the Scargill affair, which alleged a coordinated conspiracy amongst the British establishment and intelligence services to smear miners and trade unions with systematic adversarial media campaigns and false accusations, you will see the faces of Margaret Thatcher, Arthur Scargill, and a more resonant figure to contemporary affairs, Robert Maxwell, former proprietor of the Daily Mirror newspaper and father to Ghislaine Maxwell, hehe
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2024/04/the-enemy-within-at-30-milneHistorically trade unions provided a powerful avenue for destabilising various political regimes.
For example, the modern notion of Human Rights mostly invented by the 1970s Helsinki Accords, what was then known as Helsinki Rights Watch (nowadays, Human Rights Watch) a monitoring organisation which was of course motivated by bolstering Lech Walesa of Solidarity, the Polish trade union movement against the Warsaw Pact thereby weakening the Soviet Union during the Cold War. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the adoption of Washington Consensus market policies and privatisation, trade liberalisation etc, trade union membership subsequently collapsed, wage growth stagnated / suppressed and nowadays subcontracting multiple jobs or freelance online intermediated crowdsourcing of the Taskrabbit, UPWK FVRR labour variety is increasingly prevalent
Today the central tenets of the Washington Consensus (independent central banks, free trade / government nonintervention in markets corporations etc) have been overturned by Trump and the policy emphasis upon National Security and the increasing constraints of deficits and debt burdens, US demanding factory reshoring, govt stakes in INTC or share of NVDA China revenue, sanctions /tariffs, trade as economic instruments etc.
>how to incorporate adventurers in worldbuilding?>Erik Prince in Haiti, yayPerhaps a realm that resorts to "adventurers" is heavily indebted / overburdened with usurious obligations / overcommitments necessitating immediate short-termist mercenary solutions versus the long term approach of levying infantry.
How will these adventurers be paid? Imagine the look on their faces when instead of 1000 gold pieces you offer them a worthless promissory note or UST 30YR bond at 4.698% instead
