If you do… Maybe next year you should take that time to read up on the history of all of those luxuries (yes, luxuries. And when they’re gone you’ll realize how many you did have), and how we were able to obtain them.
Do you like weekends? Do you like the concept of the 8 hour work day? The concept of a minimum wage? People literally died for us to have these things enshrined in law.
If you don’t get off Labor Day, well…
If you want to look outside the US, have you heard of May Day (AKA International Workers Day)? Or even fucking Bastille Day if you want to really go back? Take a look at the bloody histories of these holidays when you have a chance.
This was literally the only way we got to where we are. And now those things people literally died for are being stripped away from us and we are doing nothing.
True, the post I responded to called for at least 10 execs:
I can tell you if we took a crowbar to at least 10 Executives, throw 5 CEOs out from the highest windows and entrap 20 middle managing power-tripping pricks. I’m sure this would be a huge U-Turn for these people.
Personally i think there’s a bit more to worker’s rights movements
I did not make that original comment, did I? Maybe you interpreted it as a call for violence, but my interpretation was using hyperbole to make a point. Though I would not have made it that way.
I named several holidays that exist to commemorate various worker’s rights movements (all of which have bloody histories). I’m not going to do the work for you and explain every single one of them, but you can easily go to the wiki pages and learn a ton of shit about it.
It is not the job of internet strangers to educate people. But if someone who wasn’t aware of the history of Labor Day decides to check out the wiki because I mentioned it in a comment, then that’s a win in my book.
As you can see, I responded to that comment. You seem to have at least some acknowledgement that maybe it wasn’t quite what you were going for and must therefore have been hyperbole. I took a more pessimistic view.
But yes, I’m aware some movements have violent elements to them. The ones we remember with reverence have other elements to them as well.
Do you get off work for Labor Day?
If you do… Maybe next year you should take that time to read up on the history of all of those luxuries (yes, luxuries. And when they’re gone you’ll realize how many you did have), and how we were able to obtain them.
Do you like weekends? Do you like the concept of the 8 hour work day? The concept of a minimum wage? People literally died for us to have these things enshrined in law.
If you don’t get off Labor Day, well…
If you want to look outside the US, have you heard of May Day (AKA International Workers Day)? Or even fucking Bastille Day if you want to really go back? Take a look at the bloody histories of these holidays when you have a chance.
This was literally the only way we got to where we are. And now those things people literally died for are being stripped away from us and we are doing nothing.
Boiling the entire worker’s rights movement down to bashing some CEO’s kneecaps in a parking garage
Sounds to me like you’re the one oversimplifying things here…
True, the post I responded to called for at least 10 execs:
Personally i think there’s a bit more to worker’s rights movements
I did not make that original comment, did I? Maybe you interpreted it as a call for violence, but my interpretation was using hyperbole to make a point. Though I would not have made it that way.
I named several holidays that exist to commemorate various worker’s rights movements (all of which have bloody histories). I’m not going to do the work for you and explain every single one of them, but you can easily go to the wiki pages and learn a ton of shit about it.
It is not the job of internet strangers to educate people. But if someone who wasn’t aware of the history of Labor Day decides to check out the wiki because I mentioned it in a comment, then that’s a win in my book.
As you can see, I responded to that comment. You seem to have at least some acknowledgement that maybe it wasn’t quite what you were going for and must therefore have been hyperbole. I took a more pessimistic view.
But yes, I’m aware some movements have violent elements to them. The ones we remember with reverence have other elements to them as well.
How many of those people were bosses?