golden showers ~~of prosperity~~

FTFY.

Personally getting tired of the smell and taste.

I am saving this comment for a well placed reply on LinkedIn.

I would typically not take credit for those eloquent words, but in that context, I should probably own them.

Over 100 years. They've been talking about Horse and Sparow economics since before the 1900s. They just changed the name around 50 years ago, it's the same economic theory.

50 years and the only thing trickling down smells like piss....

And if your aren't in a union, you can start one, and if it's unlikely you'll ever be in a union because of your career, it doesn't mean you can't help out other unions get informed about it.

Aight, fuck it, 2028 let's go

There’s a very good chance it could happen.

Hah!

Problem is keeping everyone on that message for long enough. Sure, it's possible to do that for like, a week, and realistically a week is all it would take. During the COVID Lockdowns, there were many companies that felt the pressure from everyone staying home, nobody buying anything, and they pressured state governments all over the country to lift lockdowns to get people back in. They're still fighting WFH because, if you think the residential real estate market is precarious, wait till you see the commercial market. All those companies that bought all that office space they can't fill. So, it's possible that a week of general striking is all it would take to cripple the entire private sector.

Good luck. Drink water.

Community aid and action. Basically we all look after each other. It would be nice if we could get everyone to agree and work together. If we all go homeless, we pool what resources we have left together, hold nothing back, and build our own new homes.

A broad general strike? I don't think so, but the closest thing I could think of would be the the Coal Wars across Appalachia the laegest one being the Battle at Blair Mountain. All the miners and their families (they lived in company towns) armed themselves, took control of the mines they worked at and fought tooth and nail against Baldwin-Felts Detectice Agency, the Logan County Sherriff's department, WV state police and the National Guard stationed in WV.

10,000 strikers took to the mines and tried to hold out against a force of 30,000.

Today, I’m an accelerationist, so I’m shopping on Amazon.

There's 500k people on strike in the province of Quebec right now. Nurses, teachers and school bus drivers.

From whom? Those that are sitting idly by, "simmering". Yeah, that's gonna work.