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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?