All I'm saying is build a support network before calling for a general strike.
Most people can't afford to strike even if they wanted to.
SippyCup
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Fuck you too buddy.
You guys wanna walk off the job don't let anyone stop you. But maybe spend some fucking time preparing?
Are we mad about being prepared to walk off the job now?
Libraries are paid for with taxes.
A general strike would be devastating. But we ain't there yet.
Not that I don't love the idea. It requires a robust support network. Start building a small local community that can be self sufficient. Grow food. Make tools. Sell things to neighboring communities.
The owners will still expect rent during a general strike. We have the numbers, they have the funds to we wait us out. They'll do everything they can to make it hurt us more than them.
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This guy, probably.
Probably also thinks the minimum wage is theft.
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Your planet has iron and stone, so you will make reinforced concrete so that we may more efficiently exploit other planets. And when you're out of the resources we need we will leave you barren and forgotten.
Similar experience in Dyson sphere program. By the time you're advanced enough to build a Dyson sphere, you've likely paved over the oceans and destroyed all the trees. The resources of the planet are completely tapped dry and you're bringing in raw materials from all over the galaxy to continue building the Dyson sphere, and killing the local inhabitants of most systems to do it.
Dangerous, overcomplicated, prone to failure and expensive. The auto industry didn't fight to save them because customers didn't really seem to care that much about them.
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Still, going from a stream powered spinning toy to locomotive is a few orders of magnitude. Heron's "engine" was a little jet engine. Heated water pushed it's way out of pipes. It's a far cry from building steam pressure in a tank, using that pressure to drive a crank shaft, and pushing along a vehicle of any kind.
There are a number of industrial era inventions required before you can even start putting something like a train together.
The Romans didn't even have replaceable parts yet. Every nail was custom made.
If you haven't seen it, watch Clickspring's series on the antikithra mechanism. It'll give you an idea of how hard it was to produce complicated machinery was at the time.