I am on perpetual strike, the people I know though that are still working would lose their home and health insurance if they went on strike. We need solid support structures to plan such a thing, the large general strikes in the 20th century had massive amounts of organizational support from unions which now have few members or don’t exist now, canteens set up, people occupied places and made encampments and had to battle police and private secuity. The organizations that are capable of building a coalition to enact such a thing are co-opted by the state, dismantled or deradicalized. And with the surveillance panopticon, any failure or capture by the state for such radical acts could essentially end a person’s life, either literally or by imprisoning them for years or charging them with terrorism.

I agree though that shit is so dire, if a critical mass of people suddenly checked out of the genocidal war machine, whatever complications we’d have to iron out, it would still be a massive improvement over the status quo of endless global murder and repression.