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We Used to Fight Inflation With Boycotts (jacobin.com)

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In 1973, hundreds of thousands of women took to the street to protest dramatic increases in the cost of meat. Grocery prices are growing at a much faster rate than they were 50 years ago. Why don’t we do the same?

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Covid reinforced for me that people won't do collectively good things for intangible social benefit. Strikes are for personal gain, so are more likely to work. Sure, profits are what you want to hit but without workers the profits start to take a hit. What is required is ensuring people don't break the pocket line and allowing pocket lines and protests. A lot of effort has been put into laws that neuter strike effectiveness.

[–] givesomefucks 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bruh...

You never heard of scabs before?

A strike is personal pain for group gain. And doesn't work when enough individuals choose to work without what the strike is trying to get...

Like, youre completely backwards on this...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Yes, but hyper localised. You’re fighting for your own personal, collective benefit. Not the greater good of society at large.

Scabs being a thing of the past is true, but they used to be protested and vilified, and actually have to cross a picket line.