Technology is great, when in use for the right purpose. The right purpose being generally sustaining human existence of course.
But technology can be a bitch when it just exists to either make someone rich or to make people unemployed, which is a result from making other people rich.
Of course it is good when a stage in production where people previously had to waste a lot of energy and wear out their bodies is now replaced by machines but not if it is on expense of people's jobs. If this automatisation continues and there finally won't be any working humans, who will consume what is produced? Market based economy is in this aspect flawed because it will bring about a new depression when all workers are machines and robots.
Once again I say that it is Balance that is required, Balance between Man and Machine, between market based and planned economy.
I'm talking about doing what is right for us and this planet so that noone is left out.

What if we used the advances on the technological areas to decrease workers labouring hours instead of sacking some of them while the rest must work harder?
I do not know but my guess is that it is once again to uphold the fear.
Workers who know that their boss is keen on unemploying those of his employees that are "sloppy", "cocky" and questioning their way of life, often devouts their time at work to do their boss' biding so that they do not lose their work.
If, at the same time, there are thousands of unemployed people keen on wanting to replace these sacked workers the workers often feel that there is no use in resisting what is "to be done".
Therefore a high unemployment rate in society aids the owners of the means of productions and enables them to increase the workload on their employees at the same time as they decrease their wage becuase their employees know that if they resist they will immediately be replaced.
The owning class refers to this as "supply and demand".
If supply of labour is plenty and the demand is low wages will decrease and vice versa.

And what controls supply and demand?
The market. Through our collective strive for happiness the owning class makes money.
They say: It is a free transaction and you can deny it if you want.
But since nearly all employments work like this and we need employment to "purchase" happiness we let ourself get paid less than we really deserve. And this difference between our "real" wage and their wage is the money that pays them. It is called by the owners as "gain", it is that gain that makes enterprising lucrative.

How does this gain arise?
When you and your collegues work you are paid a wage, this is a investment for your company's owner/owners as well as paying for resources and tools.
Let us say you produce chairs. The partial wage of every chair you make is 1 dollar, and the resources needed for that chair also cost 1 dollar together with the slight damage on the tools that costs 1 dollar.
These figures are of course hypothetical but they are sufficient in explaining how the WAGE SYSTEM work.
Combining your labour with resources and tools the gathered investment per chair comes to 3 dollars. But when the chair is sold the owners take 4 dollars for it, or more.
That difference is what creates the gain.

And who buys those chairs?
If not you directly then it is in the majority of the cases some other person that shares the same social status as you, another worker.
And considering that all enterprising with private and non-labouring management work after the same principals there can only be one conclusion;
The wealthy grows wealthier while the poor grows poorer.

However, when workers come to this insight, this consciousness, the pyramide of production always starts to sway.
And no wonder, the pyramide of production is flawed and unfair.
This is where classtruggle comes into the picture, classtruggle, no matter of the leading of it, is always spontaneous.
When the conditions of production deteriorate to the workers disadvantage workers always protest, no matter what kind of regime their company or country has.
Why? I say it is because they are defending their dignity as humans.
The strike is a way to say: No! We won't budge!

Sadly, strikes has never led to any majour reorganization of the pyramide.
Instead they have just led to ways of prolonging its role in human civilization.
Strikes today are never about wanting to reorganize it either, they are just shortsighted solutions to enhance the workers current conditions in the pyramide.
Strikes are still thinking inside of the pyramide when their true source lies outside of it in the hope of a fundamentally different and better tomorrow.
And that tomorrow will never be achieved by simply striking as a small minority of the gathered working class.
The only possible strike is the GENERAL STRIKE, the global strike that includes all workers, or at least a majority.
Only then will our voices be heard because the loss for the owners will be astronomical.
Until then there are much better ways to show your antipathy for this system.

Resistance, just resisting to work on worktime.
Organize all your collegues so that noone gets blamed or noone does more than anyone else.
If you all are on time, pretend to do as you are told and work when you are in sight of the boss but does not do shit until he gets back or you go home you will still be paid a salary but your employers won't make any gain and the boss will go insane.
This is much more effective than a strike and can go on for much longer.

If you are working within distribution you can either add to your salary as an individual by stealing from the cash register. Or organize you comrades and stop taking charge all together or just take charge and put it in your own pockets.
This seems as unjust, but what about not working for money, how unjust is that?

We as workers has all these rights simply because we do all the work around here.
The power is already ours, we just got to learn how to deal with it.

Finally we as a collective have to start speculating: What is the true goal of every strike and every other conflict between classes in history? Why do people challenge the power?

My guess?
They want influence, it has always been about influence.
Workers strike because they want their voices to be heard.
People protest for the same reason.
I.e. all strife continues until all voices are heard and respected, until we all have the potential of deciding for ourself, until the world truly practices democracy.