• jtrek@startrek.website
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    16 hours ago

    A lot of people died to get the pittances we got from the ownership class. Decades of

    • labor: we want to paid in real money, and work less than 12 hours a day 6 days a week
    • owner: no
    • labor: then we’re going on strike
    • owner, to the state: HELP
    • the state: sends police and troops to do violence to labor

    The idea that peacefully asking for stuff on its own is effective is largely ahistorical. A happy myth sold by the people who would be receiving violence.