Re:I was Zuckerberg’s speechwriter
by mLuby on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @12:00PM
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Only possible because government sits above companies and regulates them (and their ability to break strikes).
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Re:I was Zuckerberg’s speechwriter
by knuththetruth on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @12:20PM
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History says otherwise. People won what we think of the “legal” right to strike only after acting collectively and disruptively against key industrial nodes which relied on their labor to function (mainly in the energy sector, e.g. the coal miners in England). They forced governments to render their actions “legal.”
Because of its centrality in the modern economy, tech workers are in a similar position today. They have the power to withdraw their labor from companies and restore a more equitable balance to ceaseless assault on labor by Capital that has pushed this country into decline since the 1970s.