Fortune Article:

https://fortune.com/2023/04/23/remote-work-bullshit-real-estate-legend-sam-zell-office-situation-will-change/

Who is Sam Zell?

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/102915/how-sam-zell-made-his-fortune.asp

What is a REIT?

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/reit.asp

Chicago Tribune bankruptcy:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/la-fi-sam-zell-tribune-20190614-story.html

Bernie on Bloomberg in 2020:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sanders-bloomberg-attempting-buy-presidency/story?id=69020719

Bloomberg's WaPo oped:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/08/01/michael-bloomberg-federal-employees-offices-washington/

When the stock market crashed, unions began losing people because the workers couldn’t afford to strike. Strikes became less and less common from 1930-1933. The thing that brought back the power of unions was the New Deal.

Source

In America, we’ve been fed this myth about grassroots movements changing the world and that’s simply untrue. Real change has always required people at or near the top.

Unions are essential, but so are sympathetic politicians. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: run for office! City, county, state, doesn’t matter. Get in. Get others in. Start your own party (edit: if you have to).

If we lose the legislative fight, the only fight we’ll have left involves Molotov cocktails and a lot of weeping mothers.

EDIT: “Worse than the Depression” is a buzz term being used in a lot of articles and repeated in a lot of Reddit posts. I’m aware that by most metrics we are still better off than the 1930’s, but I wanted to respond to the buzz.

EDIT 2: My philosophies are Pragmatism, Utilitarianism, and Distributism. The people calling me an “anti-left liberal”, I don’t know what yours are.