No, donāt throw the younger generations under the bus to clean up our messes.
If nothing else we are ride or die with them.
Unfortunately you wonāt die with us, youāll die much sooner, not choking on a lack of oxygen or dying of dehydration.
We need more elders like those in Japan who volunteered to clean up nuclear waste because they wouldnāt have to live with the long-term side effects of being exposed to radiation.
As elders, yāall wouldnāt have to live as long in jail ĀÆ\(ć)/ĀÆ
General strike in the US seems like less of an impossibility year by year
Just restating some of the greatest hits:
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Universal healthcare
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Universal education through university level or trade school
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At least a month pto annually
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Parental leave for births
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Guaranteed sick leave
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32hr new full time threshold before overtime
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Only public, equal funds for elections, no PACs/dark money/donations, no lobbyist bribes
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Any elected official over a certain level cannot engage in trading of individual stocks or own businesses, dump it all in an index fund or hand off management to someone else they cannot contact without a mediator and recording, immediate expulsion & no longer able to hold office when found in violation
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No billionaires/oligarchs, anyone with earnings and assets over a billion should be taxed at 100% and assets redistributed
Edit: May 1st 2028 looks like a good target thanks to the UAW https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/general-strike-2028-unions-labor-movement/
Campaign finance reform under 7 would allow further reforms to follow, without those regulatory capture and bribery are legal and prevent any other electoral reforms benefiting the working class.
Remember when the railroad threatened to strike and nacy pelosi said they would throw them in jail if they didnāt go to workā¦fucking unreal.
A few take aways:
They need us so fucking bad
They will do anything to maintain control
No one at that level is fighting for you
Solidarity will be hard to achieve because those threats will be too much for people on the ropes in their day to day life to endure.
Remember when the railroad threatened to strike and nacy pelosi said they would throw them in jail if they didnāt go to workā¦fucking unreal.
Thereās a great WTYP on this, detailing how the inability/refusal to strike has resulted in an exodus/early retirement of train engineers sufficient to knee-cap the industry already. Increased incidence of train derailments, higher rates of rail jams and mechanical failures, and generally slower delivery times are all the result of the decline in experienced and knowledgeable industry workers.
None of this matters to the train management, which has reaped an enormous windfall in profits at the steady marginal decline in network efficiency. Monopoly means you either pay the cartel for degraded service or you ship using a more expensive method.
Solidarity will be hard to achieve because those threats will be too much for people on the ropes in their day to day life to endure.
Its important to recognize modern capitalist control as a form of hostage taking. āPay us the ransom or your critical infrastructure get itsā, even as weāre receiving fingers and earlobes in the mail with every passing year.
Solidarity is about liberating these critical components of infrastructure and operating them for the benefit of the public. The goal isnāt to shut down these institutions, but to run them without profiteers leeching the excess revenue. Thatās why some of the most effective popular economic protests donāt involve suspending services, but operating them while refusing to collect fees for service.
Its important to recognize modern capitalist control as a form of hostage taking. āPay us the ransom or your critical infrastructure get itsā, even as weāre receiving fingers and earlobes in the mail with every passing year.
This is so fuckin true.
Solidarity is about liberating these critical components of infrastructure and operating them for the benefit of the public.
BINGO if we have the power to protest effectively then we can actually make them hurt. Right now I feel like we donāt have that power at all. Just citing my example of the railroads, they stepped in quick and made sure the goods kept moving.
The goal isnāt to shut down these institutions, but to run them without profiteers leeching the excess revenue.
Absolutely.
Thatās why some of the most effective popular economic protests donāt involve suspending services, but operating them while refusing to collect fees for service.
This is interesting to me I always understood keeping services running for the sake of not harming innocent citizens But I didnāt really think it was effective. I could see a public transport rail system doing that and it working, but how do workers in other industries prevent the corporation they work for from taking in the revenue
Because then theyāll think itās about Harris, when she wouldāve just delayed it.
Iād recommend a longer full time week. If the full time week is too short, many people well rely on overtime for their salary. This completely destroys the benefits of some of your other points, since you canāt do overtime during vacations, parental leave, sick leave, etc. Overtime should not be the norm if you want a good social/financial security.
Edit: part time job should of course always be possible if your revenue allows you to work shorter weeks
@ #9; Whoa there. 100% is unreasonable. Still thereās room to start at a hard 90% at about 250 million and then incrementally scale until the tax is say, about 95-97% by about a billion.
Unfortunately you cannot tax anyone 100%; that would ultimately be unfair and demotivating and only motivate corruption to avoid the tax
Itās progressive. Youāre still allowed to have a billion. Thatās just a cap. Anything past that goes to the public.
Makes perfect sense. Itās like having $999,999,999.99 in a management game.
It doesnāt go above that, but if you buy a ton of assets and set them down, itāll probably climb right back up there to the limit again at some point.
You still have a billion bucks to do whatever with.
Although yeah, businesses routinely buy things for billions (like acquiring Minecraft? Hah) So theyād find some clever way of putting it all in some kind of ācompany trustā or something, so they donāt have it as an individual.
But Iām no lawyer. I still think having it on the books would be better than not, if it went to healthcare and education instead of funneling into the defense industry, that isā¦
When you take away peopleās reason to live, their time, their hobbies, their ability to raise a family, their loved ones, you make those people very desperateā¦
ā¦you might not be glad that you did.
glares in Nick Fury
Whoās to say you canāt get conscripted out of prison to die in the climate wars?
With the suicide rate as high as it is, Iām honestly shocked more people donāt try to take these scumbags with them.
