The things I’ve been working on today aren’t ready, so instead, here’s Cody’s Showdy to talk about unions and strikes. There’s some useful stuff in here, and if you consider what caused the strikes discussed, it’s a good illustration of the kinds of people our current system empowers.

Left-wing labor organizing is the only reason we’re not all stuck accepting Amazon gift cards instead of wages, and the only thing standing between us and a slide into a worse version of serfdom in service to the whims of people who would be happy to burn the poor for fuel if it made them more money than burning oil.