Auto workers, writers, actors, Starbucks workers, Amazon workers, UPS drivers, flight attendants – labor isn’t a ‘special interest’. It’s all of us
Auto workers, writers, actors, Starbucks workers, Amazon workers, UPS drivers, flight attendants – labor isn’t a ‘special interest’. It’s all of us
Its really fascinating to see how cyclical our culture is. Ive heard historians say that we are experiencing a very similar time period compared to the late 1800s and the early 1900s.
Lets hope that this trend doesn’t lead to another world war and a depression. But I think what these experts have been trying to convey is its likely we will find ourselves in a new social revolution in the coming years. It happened back then, it will happen again.
Let’s hope it’s a social revolution that goes forward and not backward.
Is optimism just another way of saying someone’s naive? Rhetorical.
I think the doomer mentality in the US has gotten out of hand.
Theory of alienation in action. Only solution is to get involved in the growing labor movement. A big reason my wife is adamant in organizing is setting the example for our kids, as they get closer to becoming teenagers, that you don’t have to just become a doomer and act like there is nothing to be done.
I mean, it’s not for no reason - if the system doesn’t change, almost no one who doesn’t have strong financial security already has a light at the end of the tunnel. And the system has only changed for the worse for most of us - less freedom, less protection for individuals, and no efforts to reign in corporations. Most young people aren’t going to be able to retire, and most people are unable to get ahead at all
People can’t imagine the structural changes we need to take back control of our democracy and make it work for us again, let alone how to get there… There’s a lot of (designed) learned helplessness. It’s hard for people to imagine things actually improving, we’ve had almost no wins in my lifetime - just going back and forth on social issues as worker rights backslide so far we’ve literally gone back to child labor
Honey we are already in the depression.
Strauss Howe Generational theory is probably what you’re think of.