Dave Rahardja1d ago

I don’t think a prolonged general strike is going to happen in the US, and I’ll tell you why: the social safety net doesn’t exist, and people are broke.

43% of USians cannot afford an unexpected $1000 bill¹. The median household spends 33% of their income on rent². The median household has $8k in savings³. Most people will lose their health insurance if they don’t show up to work.

How many of these people can sustain a general strike during which they will not get paid?

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¹ https://www.usnews.com/banking/articles/2026-financial-wellness-survey

² https://usafacts.org/answers/how-much-do-households-spend-on-rent/country/united-states/

³ https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/savings-account-average-balance/#how-much-does-the-average-household-have-in-savings

Show threadTheStrangelet 
@drahardja The situation most Americans find themselves in is not an accident. This systemic poverty is by design.
Apr 8 at 4:02pmWeb
Show threadmike8051d ago

@thestrangelet @drahardja The financial elite did not set out to make us all poor.

They just set out to take all the wealth for themselves.

A cattle rancher's goal is not to kill cows, but to make money. They are people farmers.

They did this by creating enough new credit (not money, the difference needs to be well understood) to buy all the new wealth created in the USA since around 1973.

They also used law changes to create cartels where that used to be illegal. Stock buybacks were illegal

Show threadTheStrangelet 1d ago

@mike805 @drahardja I may agree with your premise that the financial elite did not set out to drive humanity into poverty; however, they certainly didn't care, which is close enough to the same thing.

The purpose of a system is what it does, as they say.