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The last garbage workers strike in New York lasted two weeks before the city caved.

• Angostura 8y ago
  But did it have any actual effect on the modern-day equivalent of the patricians? I imagine they just took a private jet to Monaco until it blew over.
  • olefoo 8y ago
    Our society is much more complex and populous than Rome was at that time. Sure the idle rich could and did vacate but it's hard and expensive to move the massive investment in social infrastructure that any organisation that feels a need to be in New York City has made.
  • palerm 8y ago
    This. Most modern strikes affect other working class people instead of the "1%" (?) they are supposed to be targeting.
  • mreome 8y ago
    Who drove them to the airport, loaded their luggage, prepared the in-flight meals, fueled up the jet, and flew it?