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There's a worker's rights movement sweeping large parts of the workforce right now. Businesses are being defensive, trying to lower expectations. It's a bit of a game of chicken; they're not actually "making due", but if they show their weakness, it gives labor an advantage. So they're feigning strength.

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> Businesses are being defensive, trying to lower expectations. It's a bit of a game of chicken;

They’re going to win. They have a much bigger war chest than me.

Labor can shut everything down, working collectively. And it seems like they're trying. I wouldn't count them out.

In the US? There’s nearly zero collective action in the US.

Union participation in the US is a rounding error.

Well, there was a what, hundred year effort to poison the reputation of unions—which absolutely succeeded. But management won so completely, that labor is starting to remember why they created unions in the first place.

Which is to say: you're right, but times may be changing.

That trend is reversing.

There is a UPS strike right around the corner. More than 340,000 workers are set to go on strike on August 1 & they have hundreds of millions saved in strike funds.

Every actor and writer in Hollywood is also on strike against the big studios.

Unionizing is happening at its fastest clip in decades right now.

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