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The point was:

He could have been part of a unionization effort, instead he chose violence, harmed his peers, and took away that possibility.

Saying that he should have just tried to unionize demonstrates an ignorance of the state of unionization in the US as I outlined in my comment.

He could have begged outside of the headquarters too, for all of the good it would do. Treating unionization as if it were some viable option is not a good point.

I'm not saying that everyone should burn their place of employment down, but he did it in a way that led to nobody being injured and the message resonates with a lot of people. Much like Luigi, it isn't that what he did is the right thing, but it is undoubtedly a more effective message to the elites than printing union flyers and getting fired.

California has unemployment and, assuming this company cheats their employees by making them all part-time, it pays as much or more than their lost wages.

These kinds of things are going to keep happening as the lower class is squeezed by economic pressures and the elites who control the political system block any attempt at reforms that would benefit the labor class. In the grand scheme of things, the harm suffered here was financial and not measured in human lives.