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>>pseudo+(OP)
There is a "Fight club" feel to this crisis. All the "key worker", necessary job that need to be done regardless the catastrophe society is facing are literally the least desirable job on the market and often the least paid too.

Hopefully there is going to be wake up call in society. Surely a large scale demonstration like this would convince people that your "free market capitalistic assigned worth, i.e. your salary" is not a sufficient measure of your value in society and external adjustment (eg: government regulation or welfare or ...) is actually quite reasonable.

>>gutnor+h8
It's like the opposite of the Galt's Gulch strike by the titans of industry in Atlas Shrugged. Unfortunately for the workers, the sudden spike in unemployment might make them easily replaceable, though there will be a training cost incurred by the companies. Their best hope is that enough unemployed people are comfortable with their government checks (stimulus and unemployment) combined with hope that their jobs will come back in a month or two, to not bother picking up jobs at Whole Foods or Amazon.

>>Mounta+Z8
Only on Hacker News could you find some describing strikes, which were invented by workers, predate everything Rand wrote to cynically invert history and reality, as the “opposite of Galt’s Gulch.”

>>claude+ph
HN and any other place software developer types gather. If we didn't exist Rand would have had to invent us. We're practically perfect consumers of her work. We do a very cushy job for which a small amount of labor can produce a vast amount of value. It's easy to believe that it's a level playing field, so we're being rewarded purely for our own skill and hard work. We've changed the world on scales not seen since the age of the railroad tycoon.

We read Atlas Shrugged and see ourselves. Let us run the world and everybody will do great. We don't read The Jungle or Nickel and Dimed, and if we do we don't see ourselves. We enjoy the benefits of the labor movement as natural rights -- or even dismiss things like weekends and sick leave as unnecessary.

That's not everybody on HN; in fact HN seems to be better than many. Slashdotters, last I saw, seemed quite convinced Rand had written scripture.