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What's preventing a General Strike in the United States? (lemmy.nz)
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[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

The other half of it is conditioning a society to be so dependent on convenience and little luxuries (yes, even poor people in US have luxuries compared to other parts of the world) that they technically could strike, but doing so would be so below their standard of living that it would not be sustainable.