the box

An essay on the current labor movement resurgence in a post-covid world, as a response to the greatest wealth gap in modern times.  The elimination of the middle class, or more accurately, the middle of the middle class.  The reality is that the middle has been gutted, which is the rung from lower middle to upper middle, so lower can no longer leap to upper with any regularity, and upper is accessible only to those born into upper.  Multifaceted issue as the spotlight was shined on many forgotten corners of civility, which can be discussed in support of premise, but keep focus on labor movements and the energy brewing in that direction.

Old white privileged baby-boomer syndrome of empowering themselves over others by asking/demanding their name. They pass it off as being personal, but it's only for their benefit, to empower themselves over you, in their "rightful" place, in their thinking.  What they are actually saying is, "What's your name, son?"  They are giving you no option, as if they are entitled to my name, and no other demographic does this. The stories of the old factory owners that knew every workers name but never once gave a raise, thinking that was some gift.  Nope.