What about those of us who can't (or manage not to) labor for a boss? "Labor" in my opinion is part of the problem. Recall the "General Trades Union" won the 10 hour day in the USA, and then everyone left the union, since they no longer had any problems with their labor. People made big changes happen, but they still thought it was fine to labor for a boss.

That compromise with the capitalists let them stay in power, and the capitalists used that power to undermine the labor movement, and erode away the freedoms we earned. A labor movement today would face mechanisms in place to prevent a labor movement from ever happening again. People had strong communities back then, societies, families, even churches, and those are all gone now, replaced with television and paranoid doctrine that our children are in terrible danger, and we must never trust strangers. Why don't we tell each other to welcome strangers, and get to know them? Even the architecture of the roadways, it all functions to keep us isolated and alone, just in case we get the idea to join together again like in the 1930's.

So, I think a movement could do some good, but if we look at it through the narrow lens of "labor," we'll always labor for bosses. Maybe it's time we stop being workers, and start being people again.

@janisf Billionaires won't save us. Future technology won't save us. EV's wont save us. Mars is inhabitable, we can't move there. Moving there would be worse than staying in Earth, if it was possible.
Stop eating meat and dairy, stop overconsuming, stop doing bullshit jobs, stop doing work that only makes things worse, change car to bicycle, planes to trains, hang oil executives and billionaires. That will save the Earth and humanity.

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