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[–] 6 points 7 months ago (5 children)

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.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    I’m average. I will.

    Quit thinking like everything has to be 100% successful the first time or it’s a failure. We have been propagandized and beaten down over the course of years to get where we are now, of course it’s going to take more than one try to get this thing together.

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