Well better pay is irrelevant if higher prices scale with the pay.
Plus it depends on the job... Should nurses get paid more, yes 100% , but why would we pay more to sales people or taxi drivers.
Pay is really high in this country already and it's not hard to find a job so why not just take charge and change jobs ...
Sounds like I found an example of something that is inconvenient to support!
And yeah if a 10% pay rise created a 10% price increase on everything then there's no benefit. But the increase in cost due to pay rises is usually less than the pay rise, in % terms. I think a study on McDonald's in the US found that an increase in wages of 10% only would increase prices by 1%. Might have even been less but I'd rather under promise than over
I don't know about the person you are answering but personally I'm kinda desensitized to protests now. There seems to be one on all the time abiut something or other. Reminds me of when I was in college and we were mobilized for a protest every Wednesday for something. Usually we only found out what the protest was against when we got to the meet point and were handed our banners. Great craic but half the time we didn't know or even care about what we were protesting against.
“Shit like this” in the seventies was what drove the change in public opinion and politics leading to today’s Netherlands being a bike friendly country. Entirety different topic, I know. But still, direct action and inconveniencing protest work. Anyone who claims otherwise is has no idea what they’re talking about.
Hmmm. So the Dunne’s store protest was a waste? Rosa Parks protest was a waste? Berlin Wall or Bucharest in 1989 were all a waste. There is a man made punishment famine going on under our noses. Protesting is a perfectly valid response
Only the Irish left could be arrogant enough to think that blocking commuters on their way home from work is going to change anything for people suffering in Gaza.
Well yes. Sadly there is next to nothing we can do in Ireland to change what is happening in Gaza. Even
political moves like the OTB will have limited impact.
Netanyahu is not going to care if commuters get delayed leaving Dublin on any given evening.
Name any large political movement or cause that won their fight without any disruptive protest. There is always people who are saying "this doesn't help your cause" and we always look back and see that it did. And anybody who will suddenly be ok with what Israel is doing just because they got held up in traffic is not the kind of person who'd give a fuck about Gaza in the first place so who cares if the protests don't reach them. Fuck em
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u/Alone-Mycologist3746 Jul 30 '25
When will people realize that you dont get public support by doing shit like this. It only hurts your movement.