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Who's going to run out of food first?
The people with more money than God?
Or the people living paycheck to paycheck?
They would just wait it out until we had no choice but to go back to work, and we'd have to agree to far worse terms than we have now.
We'd be better off just dragging the rich out of their homes to preheated barbecue grills.
A national general strike will bring corporations to their knees first. Of course they don't have to worry about food. Are you stupid? They have to worry about the fincial ruin it would bring.
Losing a week of profit, two max, isn't going to bankrupt a company, especially if they're not paying out anything for labor during that time. If it does, maybe they should cut back on the avocado toast.
The place I work for had to shut down for 11 days after an ice storm a few years ago and they paid us our full wages the entire time, didn't go under.
A general strike isn't just about everyone going on strike, it's also about key sectors of the economy striking at the same time. If cargo airline workers, freight and trucking workers, and postal workers had a strike at the same time, national transportation logistics are suddenly looking pretty dicey aren't they?
It's not about bankrupting a single business. It's about the delays in service and opportunity cost. Shutting down supply lines. Loss of major investments. We are talking about shutting down an entire country.
Which is impossible with our current America unfortunately, those who do strike will likely won't see results for a week, and many won't strike even if they want to due to the wages
If these billionaires cared about money and they truly cared about it then they would have made programs to give wealth back and to have them use it on themselves to grow themselves
They want power, like right now where most go hungry some go homeless from striking only once, they got what they need.
I don't need you to tell me it's impossible. The only people you're serving right now are the billionaires. If you want to fall for the lie that they hold all the cards go ahead but I know it's the people who have real power.
Just-in-time supply chains mean that a day of lost work fucks things up for a week.
If they can shut down the government we can shut down our jobs and industries, how panicked would they be after a month? Pretty sure a lot of us can do a month or two of canned soup and ramen.
There's a long history of strikes being very effective, less frequently in the US after 1947, but that doesn't mean it's not worth it or not going to be effective.
When there is nothing left for the poor to eat, they will eat the rich.
A similiar proportion of companies are in the same ‘paycheck to paycheck’ boat. There’s tons of zombie companies. It’s the big 7 that prop everything up