Republican lawmakers are arguing that Americans are prepared to tolerate higher prices as a necessary cost of supporting Donald Trump’s agenda, even as worries over inflation continue to mount. The comments follow Trump’s announcement that his threatened tariffs on China, Mexico and Canada are set to take effect from today — a move economists warn could further drive up inflation.…
Pretty much this. The average American is homeless without their next paycheck, if not dead. We do not have social medicine, we do not have safety nets of any sort. We don’t have a culture of mutual aid despite what we might claim, nor enough charities to bridge the gaps. Being homeless is effectively a death sentence in much of the US, anyway - if the cops don’t kill you, it’s a good chance that the weather will.
I don’t disagree that mutual aid would benefit all those who would strike, but a general strike is never going to be a clean thing that labor pulls off unscathed. IMO Waiting until the general populace has the capital to rise up is a bad strategy because said capital is controlled by the people who we’re trying to rise up against.
Pretty much this. The average American is homeless without their next paycheck, if not dead. We do not have social medicine, we do not have safety nets of any sort. We don’t have a culture of mutual aid despite what we might claim, nor enough charities to bridge the gaps. Being homeless is effectively a death sentence in much of the US, anyway - if the cops don’t kill you, it’s a good chance that the weather will.
I don’t disagree that mutual aid would benefit all those who would strike, but a general strike is never going to be a clean thing that labor pulls off unscathed. IMO Waiting until the general populace has the capital to rise up is a bad strategy because said capital is controlled by the people who we’re trying to rise up against.