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nowyourdoingit t1_ism7ad2 wrote
Reply to comment by Bluehorsesho3 in What would happen if there was just a city-wide rent strike? Like eventually it would end up in court obviously but if everyone collectively stopped paying rent, the renters would get bargaining leverage back before all the evictions came. Seems like it could be a worthwhile experiment. by Bluehorsesho3
It won't work in NYC because the conflation of the hyper wealthy and powerful and the deep pool of sycophantic wannabees who are trying to climb that pyramid. When it worked in the past it was because of groups which shared a common cultural heritage...only common heritage for most New Yorkers these days is the grind and pizza rats.
nowyourdoingit t1_ism6j9m wrote
Reply to What would happen if there was just a city-wide rent strike? Like eventually it would end up in court obviously but if everyone collectively stopped paying rent, the renters would get bargaining leverage back before all the evictions came. Seems like it could be a worthwhile experiment. by Bluehorsesho3
It's happened before with some success https://jewishcurrents.org/rent-strike
Striking and protesting are effective. History shows time and time again that disrupting the money supply is the only thing that is.
Most likely result now is if it got large enough the national guard would be activated and they'd start high profile jailings.
nowyourdoingit t1_ism9847 wrote
Reply to comment by thetwelth2018 in What would happen if there was just a city-wide rent strike? Like eventually it would end up in court obviously but if everyone collectively stopped paying rent, the renters would get bargaining leverage back before all the evictions came. Seems like it could be a worthwhile experiment. by Bluehorsesho3
They wouldn't arrest people for failure to pay rent. They would arrest people for civil disobedience and resisting arrest and a variety of other things. The powers at be in the US have been working since before the US was a country to put measures in place to limit the potential efficacy of rebellions and strikes. George Washington and the Whiskey Rebellion...