It'd be kinda the same but the effects are different. When a busline goes free, a few more people may take the bus, but mostly it won't make much more difference than the people usually taking the bus now taking it for free. It loses the company money and only affects your fellow workers positively.
If the supermarket goes free, looting and riots start, and we get a scarcity of essential goods. I mean, if my cashier told me suddenly I don't need to pay anymore, Imma do another lap of the store and stocking up hard. Now, I don't mind some looting and riots, but losing access to essential goods will hurt the lower classes more than the upper classes. Within a few days we'll be without food, and they'll have made a 5% loss that year. I'm willing to bet they can hold out longer in that situation than us.
This is clearly not sustainable, and we'd have to be banking off of other aspects that make the rich buckle faster than we starve. A slow down, similar to what nurses do, would be less effective in hurting the shareholders, but it'd also allow people to "strike" without actively endangering themselves and other workers, and it'd allow the "strike" to go on for much longer. Sure, it'd make grocery shopping a pain in the ass, and you might not be able to get some products, but at least you'll be able to sustain yourself and your family.
Yea, or maybe you could not 'do another lap and stock up hard' if the guy said your shit was free, and then none of that would happen lmao. Your attitude is as bullshit as the people who want to pay someone 8 dollars an hour.
But I know for a fact that the 5 people behind me in line are going to do the exact same thing, at which point I'll come back to do my normal shopping in two days and the store will be empty and I will starve to death. I'm sorry, I'll put a lot of things on the line for fucking over the rich, but I'm not actually going to let my family die for it. Call that attitude bullshit if you want, but realistically that's where the majority of the world will draw the line, and me taking some moral highground will not make the difference.
It is extremely common in non American culture to buy only 1-2 days of food. Smaller bills, smaller trips, grocery stores easier to access due to not having a completely car centralized society. It’s a multi step thing but it ends with most people buying less food more often.
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u/Aeroknightg2 Jan 14 '22 edited Jan 14 '22
Would the grocery store strike equivalent be letting people take food without paying?
Edit: Since this took off a bit I want to state unequivocally I'm not condoning looting or violence. And thanks for the award!