Comment on Electoral politics doesn't get the job done
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
One way to escalate such a strike is to have a limited, general, recurring and escalating strike.
So it’s a day in January; two days in February; three in March, etc.
Its complicated, possibly too complicated for the typical worker, but it would give ramping escalation and allow for negotiation in process.
the problem remains the same: getting the general public to heed a strike. Short of people dying by hundreds of thousands, they don’t seem motivated.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 days ago
When a million Americans died of Covid people demanded to end Covid restrictions.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 6 days ago
Sad but true.
Not all Americans called for it, just very vocal ones. The people that were fine with the lockdowns and restrictions were not represented in the debate because they were sheltering in place at home trying to keep more people from dying to the virus.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 days ago
America’s national identity is not around individualism. Other people dying it’s less important than individual success.
That’s why it’s the economy that matters. a quarter of a percent of extra deaths isn’t something people care about AI long as they aren’t the ones dying. But evonomic turmoil hits everyone individually.