Well there is the common wisdom that a suddenly implemented general strike of 10% or more of the population would screw up the economy so bad that it would force the government to consider implementing some sort of representation for the people. Sadly there is no real way of organizing some sort of massive general strike like that in the modern day, people arn't just going to up and quit their jobs for absolutely no reason. You would need to thrust some ultimatum upon them in order to get people to do that. Hmm, wonder how that might come to happen.

I know after seeing all those other people get to take a year or more off, I'm more than ready to take some time off, coast on my savings(I only have enough for roughly a decade and a half), and watch the world burn. I'll probably look into some wholesome, tangible, and productive hobbies with my time, the sort that could be turned into self employment.