Millions of people go to work every day. They spend hours and hours working hard, doing various challenging tasks, and thusly they generate enormous wealth. Well, we know that you and I are getting about the same amount we got twenty years ago, maybe a little less. Bank profits are way up. Microsoft is making a bundle.
Money moves around.
We ought to pay close attention to how it moves around. There is no restraint on human greed. Some people regard unions as greedy. That may be true, but the difference is that unions distribute wealth far more widely than corporations do, and history tells us that the more widely and evenly wealth is distributed, the safer and healthier a society is. Copyright 1998 Bill Van Dyk .