Much as I like this idea, it’s not going to catch on. You think the average non-union retail or office worker will risk being fired? We are locked into the system we have, and sadly, that’s that. Unless and until a plurality of workers lose the entire life they have.
Without existing strong organization you’re probably right, but it’s more likely that the wheels will come off and a general strike would happen naturally with rising inflation and unemployment.
The shitter things get, the less tight your social ties need to be for collective action. Everyone’s implicitly on the same page when you start missing meals.
Yeah, the average commuter will have to lose their house in the burbs (just 50 miles from work), the kid’s private school, and the Tundra. When Frank Freeway is living in a rented shipping container and eating slop from the church food bank, MAYBE a few years of that will wake us the fuck up.
Me? I’m retired. I could lose everything any time.
Well you have to remember that Franks house is on an adjustable rate mortgage and his Tundra still has 80 months left on the loan. If the income gets cut, the rug gets pulled on everything and people wake up real quick.
Much as I like this idea, it’s not going to catch on. You think the average non-union retail or office worker will risk being fired? We are locked into the system we have, and sadly, that’s that. Unless and until a plurality of workers lose the entire life they have.
Without existing strong organization you’re probably right, but it’s more likely that the wheels will come off and a general strike would happen naturally with rising inflation and unemployment.
The shitter things get, the less tight your social ties need to be for collective action. Everyone’s implicitly on the same page when you start missing meals.
Yeah, the average commuter will have to lose their house in the burbs (just 50 miles from work), the kid’s private school, and the Tundra. When Frank Freeway is living in a rented shipping container and eating slop from the church food bank, MAYBE a few years of that will wake us the fuck up.
Me? I’m retired. I could lose everything any time.
Well you have to remember that Franks house is on an adjustable rate mortgage and his Tundra still has 80 months left on the loan. If the income gets cut, the rug gets pulled on everything and people wake up real quick.