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I wish I shared folks' optimism about the pro act. The only way that passes is with a sustained strike wave disruptive enough to make employers run to politicians and demand that they end the chaos so they can make some money again.
The PRO Act would cost employers money, and more importantly a significant degree of decision making power. They have the money, and their decisions are why everything is awful, but they aren't going to give an inch unless it actually costs less to concede than to keep fighting.
That's what *power* means. It's when we have the ability to make life so shitty for the bosses, the politicians, or the whole ruling class, that giving us what we want is the better option for them.
And that might sound crazy, but that's only because the power the ruling class has over us is the status quo, we don't even think of it as power unless we're actually getting fired, evicted, or arrested.
The $600 stimulus is the ruling class wielding their power. They make millions of people's lives so hard that they have no choice but to accept being someones cheap labor (low wages, shitty conditions, no healthcare or time off, etc)
