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General Strikes tend to be difficult to bring about in the United States because our only productive, profitable, material industry is in the reactionary sectors: oil and polymers, automobiles, weapons, and the production of raw materials for these industries (steel, etc.). These industries are either comparatively well-paid or staffed by immigrants who are in a precarious position.

Most of the wealth of today's billionaires is in intellectual property, speculative assets, and foreign production. These things aren't going to be affected as much by a strike in the U.S. as, say, a factory that makes boots.