so hey see how when a bunch of workers together stop working for a stated purpose it creates a potentially wide-ranging disruption that creates pressure to address things they want to have addressed, and they can do this for reasons beyond their immediate workplace conditions
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and seeing how so much of everything is owned and operated by capitalists who are the prime beneficiaries of workers' labor, this ends up being a very powerful tool to use against powers that seem utterly unmovable
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one of the reasons we go on and on and on about workers isn't because workers are magical wonderful beings that can do no wrong it's because they have this power together on account of the system of economics and production and etc etc blah blah blah
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there are even WILD notions out there that if you get enough of these industries, particularly ones central to our functioning as a society and production engine for wealth, to all get on the same page and strike all at once for the same reasons, you'll be able to do a whole lot!
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i feel like this is a theory we should test at some point, just in the interests of science, to see if it actually works or not
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