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If you quit your job the first time your boss says something dumb, you’re going to have to do a lot of job hunting.
If more people quitted(?) their jobs the first time their boss says something stupid fewer bosses would say, and do, stupid shit. They need us more than we need them.
In the long term maybe, but in the short term I still need to pay rent
The system is designed to force you into debt and coerce you into work and it wont ever change if we keep playing by their rules.
True, but having the moral high ground doesn't pay the rent, so without either outside help or organized rebelion all it will do is hurt the little guy.
As it stand now they effectively won, we waited too long, not saying it can't change but individual action is not enough
...organized rebelion...
What do you think I'm advocating for here? Demanding your rightfull place as a worker is rebellion.
Sure, one dignified chump quitting will be laughed at; but one thousand? ten thousand? will make them sweat.But 1000, 10,000 aren't doing that. This is just one person reacting to their boss and quitting on the spot. You have to organize and plan this shit out. General Strikes don't just magically "happen" when enough people are pissed off, those pissed off people have to actually coordinate with each other.
You have to organize
What do you think I'm advocating for here?
Hard to organize shit when people is arguing against spreading the idea of doing so.
Right now there is the biggest unionizing effort, and threats of strike that I've ever seen.
The UPS strike would have been the largest private strike in US history, but the threat alone worked and they got what they asked for.
Starbucks, Amazon, and many other big brands have started unionizing. Many municipal workers have also been doing this.
COVID changed a lot, now is the time to organize and demand your rights.
Homelessness is manufactured, its part of that coercion I talked about, so... yes.
Theres plenty of employed people who are homeless (quick google search shows that in the US about 50% of people living in shelters and 40% living on the streets are employed). Employment does not guarantee shelter, as we've been told, so clearly playing by their rules isnt working for us. Why do we keep playing a game that is rigged against us and supported by lies is beyond me.
Obviously all this should be accompained with solidarity/mutual aid and real societies and not the individualist bullshit they try so hard to convince us is society. Governments and corporations wont help us but theres no reason we cant help each other if we wanted to.
Quitted works. Quit I think is a more common word to use. Quitted can also be synonymous with “left” as in “I quitted the city altogether in favour of a life in the countryside.”
Quat. Quote. Quate?