Electoral politics doesn't get the job done
Electoral politics doesn't get the job done
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They have enough money to hold out for 10 days. Your rent is still due, and you’re broke—as intended. Good luck.
It's called solidarity and community, look it up, in fact go learn some actual labour history before you make any more assertions about a subject you clearly know nothing about
This reply is a great way to alienate people who are interested enough in a general strike to get in a thread and point out questions that literally everyone will have.
I’m right that the rich are willing to hold out until we are bled dry. It’s going to take a lot more than 10 days to have actual lasting change. The rich are looking down at us and saying, “isn’t it cute how they starve themselves to make a point, as if their life matters to me at all.”
Okay, let's just not do this then. Carry on everyone, nothing to see here. ;)
Or we could just go at it harder.
Sounds crazy, but that's irrelevant. Understand the cost of shutting down a just-in-time economy. You're thinking like an individual, not a corporation.
You're out of work for 10-days, you're out of 10-days pay, that's it. Shut down, say, Walmart, and the logistical boondoggle would reverberate like a fucking shockwave. It would take months to resume normal operations.
FFS, look at what COVID did. Semis backup up for miles, for days, ships delayed for months. And that was with all of us trying to work and muddle through. After shutting down I-10 for a measly 2-days, I drove past 24-miles of backed-upped trucks once it started again. (There was plenty more, but I was at my exit.)
The scale of our economy is hard to grasp from an individual perspective, but the owners sure as fuck grasp it. There are factories and plants where stoppages cost millions per hour.
10 isn’t enough for long term change. It’s enough for them to realize they need a backup plan.
If you cut me on the arm I’m going to be shocked, and wear protection next time. But if you shove a knife in my gut and twist, something needs to happen now or I’m going to bleed out.
We need to stab them in the gut.