I don't think it's a sound argument. You're greatly underestimating the ability for power to coerce and get people to fall in line with enough carrots and stick, and eliminate those that don't.
No, I’m not. We’re not in disagreement that most people will fall in line. We’re in disagreement of how many people it takes to form an effective resistance group. My claim is a handful, your response is to dismiss this and act like everyone is going to fall in line. That just hasn’t ever happened in history. It’s why occupation is difficult. It’s why occupation has evolved to be through internal puppets rather than explicit ownership. Because it’s the same strategy as the resistance in reverse.
Historic evidence is that that resistence can be mitigated in facilities staffed by belligerants, i.e. sabotage to German war manufacturing facilities staffed by captured/coerced labour were largely token and ineffective from within. The people who don't fall in line gets a bullet in the head. Pretty soon you're left with only those who fall in line. Getting captured production back up and running happens all the time throughout history. I'm not the one asserting "one employee" can significantly halt production. Maybe temperorily, until that one employee and their family gets the axe, and the next, pretty quickly everyone falls in line.
