I imagine a similar reaction to this:
In the meantime, I’ll continue to gorge myself on Fig Newtons while rubbing it raw.
You can’t just eat cookies all day man
1891 Cookie scientists: What if we classify this, instead of as cookie, as “fruit and cake”?
2024: Loophole finally exercised.
goddamn it, I lobbed a perfect setup
I think they’d bring guns to their strike. Completely serious.
The strikers began to fight back, killing four mine guards and firing into a separate camp where strikebreakers lived. When the body of a strikebreaker was found nearby, the National Guard’s General Chase ordered the tent colony destroyed in retaliation.
Yup, and this is what every single protest needs to be doing.
You can be nonviolent, but if you want change, there has to be a very real threat to the status quo.
I think they’d also be disappointed or shocked we let them continue to screw us over.
So you’re telling me that you can just press a few buttons and learn how to make a bomb? How are your landlords and bosses still alive?
Law enforcement is militarized.
They’d be overjoyed that their fight was won. The 40 hour work week is what they were fighting for, as are OSHA, overtime, benefits, and unemployment. They were working 16 hours per day, 6-7 days per week, in absolutely awful conditions, at the ripe old age of 12, just to live in a shack, eat bread, and own one pair of clothes. I highly suggest that anyone here who thinks things are worse now than they were 100 years ago should go read The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair. Read it right now! That doesn’t mean that we can’t keep improving, especially with productivity at all-time highs, along with rampant price gouging. The corporations are trying to get back to where we were 100 years ago, it’s up to us to keep pushing in the right direction.
No source to hand but I heard a rumour that:
This is first generation since 100 years ago that is worse off (in terms of health outcomes & ability to save) than their parents. I’m not so sure about wealth inequality but that’s pretty high in many countries right now.
Its interesting that it happens at times of fast technological change.
Edit: I agree about things being better than 100 years ago.
They would be horrified at how bad it’s got and they’d start figuring out how the bourgeoisie managed so well to subdue the working classes.
Then they’d tell us they’re not mad at us, just disappointed.
Then we’d get drunk and I’d help teach them the wonders of the internet, and they’d be far more disappointed in us, because we have literally uncensorable global communications and could actually organise almost the entire planet if there really was the will.
They would be horrified at how bad it’s got
I’m curious what you think factory working conditions were like in 1924.
Societal apathy and low wages snd poor rights, were what I wss thinking about.
Well Gompers would be all in on the anti-china thing going on right now, he’s part of why the AFL supported the Chinese Exclusion Act.
Mother Jones would probably die a second time from a heart attack when she finds out that republicans are rolling back child labor protections.
IWW members would probably be organizing service, retail, and contract workers.
The men from Blair mountain and Harlan county probably wouldn’t lay their arms down this time.
All of this.
They’d say “you have microwaves and cars. Just keep laboring. Things are great for you”
Lol jk
