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Re:Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests... by Kye on Friday November 27, 2020 @09:02AM (#25228753)
The last 40 years have seen information asymmetry decline like in no other era. Until now, that mostly benefited the rich. Workers are just catching up on the same phenomenon that led to the new Gilded Age.

I hope we can avoid massacres this time.

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Re:Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests... by sp332 on Friday November 27, 2020 @09:55AM (#25229137)
Amazon has already hired the Pinkertons, so that's not a foregone conclusion. https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dp3yn/amazon-leaked-reports...

Quick history lesson if anyone needs one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homestead_strike

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Re:Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests... by SpicyLemonZest on Friday November 27, 2020 @10:51AM (#25229604)
Come on now. The Homestead strike involved a firefight between the union and strike-breakers. Do you really think that's a plausible outcome of Amazon's anti-union efforts?
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Re:Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests... by fl0wenol on Friday November 27, 2020 @11:20AM (#25229912)
Asking questions like that in 2020 is cursed, why invite the devil inside?
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Re:Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests... by claudeganon on Friday November 27, 2020 @02:16PM (#25231729)
Look at what the cops did to protestors throughout the past year. What makes you think they wouldn’t do the same in the context of labor unrest?
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Re:Amazon Workers to Stage Coordinated Black Friday Protests... by eezurr on Friday November 27, 2020 @11:27AM (#25229994)
It's not pure science, but Always an interesting read:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss–Howe_generational_theo...

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