[lapinot]

> a work stop was all of not opening laptops for 35-40% of the country

Strikes are social events, you don't do it alone. There's usually a minority of agitators/organizers that are respected/trusted among workers and that call the shots/organize the fun. So working from home is very much anti-organization and hinders strikes. It isolates workers.

[kktkti9]

Literally isolates.

I seem to recall an invention called “Internet” which allowed for concerts, talk shows, and numerous other social events to occur during covid.

[mschuster91]

The problem is "mob dynamics". A visible picket line, a blocked street - that creates attention and draws more workers into the strike. On the Internet, these crowd dynamics don't work nearly as effective as they do in the meatspace.

[lobocinza]

Isn't Twitter a thing?

[kktkti9]

You don’t think Amazon would notice orders not coming in?

Google wouldn’t notice code not being checked in?

Call centers wouldn’t notice Q’s backing up?

No one would notice if Reddit’s front page was days old?

Commerce now relies on people being at computers daily at scale.

[kfprt]

Amazon and Google will notice but your local news station will not. Without press coverage forcing the company to negotiate employees have very little bargaining power.

[kktkti9]

You seem to be of the opinion the stoppage of e-commerce supply chains would be a quiet little event no one would notice?

I don’t care whose grandpa did what 80 years ago. I don’t owe deference to a figurative identity they want to carry around if it’s also literally abusive to the species as a whole.

Industrialist power is a privilege, not a right.