“That which we receive too cheap we esteem too lightly”, Thomas Paine. Nobody is ever going to give workers a balanced economy. This has been the key weakness to U.S. politics over the 50+ years I have been involved; our so called citizens really want to elect a daddy figure who will take care of the hard things and leave them free to pursue their 2 car garages and big screen TVs, the better to keep up with the Kardashians.

We have a moment of opportunity right now. If enough low wage “essential workers” wake up and organize we could possibly get a resurgence of the labor movement, the better to take a balanced economy.