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For the Americans wondering, yes we can do that in Sweden.
I mean we can do that in America too. We'll just get oppressed and murdered by our government and their sponsored thugs. I just hope within my lifetime the masses here will become fed up enough that those threats aren't enough to keep us subservient anymore.
I'm not wondering that, I'm cheering you on. I'm wondering why we don't do his ourselves. Safety in numbers, use the collective empathy to motivate that which has no empathy. I love it.
It's illegal for you to sympathy strike and you don't have sector bargaining. The fact that I've never talked to an American who knows this and that a hundred year old law is what's stopping most of your progress is always sad to me. :/
We don’t do this ourselves because, even at fairly high income levels, we’re all living a lot closer to paycheck-to-paycheck than we’d all like, and our ability to get healthcare and afford food and housing is tied quite directly to our jobs, and we have nearly no real social safety nets or real worker protections to speak of compared to Europe.
Arbeit macht frei: The American Dream.