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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because not going to work, which will cost you personally in either lost wages or in expended paid leave, or by reducing business income for a day, will actually lead to a change in government policy?  What a bizarre and irrational presumption.  Why does the government care if you go to work or not?  Nor does the government care if you spend money.  The linkage between employee/consumer behavior and government policy in this way is totally absent.  [/quote]

The entire system, the entire economy, depends on us going to work. I assure you that the government has a vested interest in us going to work. It's why every social program is tied to whether you work or have a justification for why you don't work. Otherwise, it's work or starve/become homeless/go to jail. Our labor is the most valuable leverage we as workers have. And general strikes work. That's why they are technically illegal in the US.

Think about that. It is technically illegal for all of us to collectively decide to withhold our labor. And that's exactly why now is exactly the time we MUST do so. [/quote]

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