That’s not just something they turned it into, that’s the inevitable result of a system where profit defines success. Because, no matter how good your product is, or how great the service is, if you don’t make as much money it’s not good enough.

As long as profit is the defining characteristic of our economy, this will never change.

A week or two wouldn’t do anything in the long term. They’d just spend the time breaking strikers’ kneecaps, because they made general strikes illegal so they’d have justification for violently breaking up any attempts.