“In the old class war, workers struggled mightily in the face of domination and oppression; today’s workers drift passively in the face of growing irrelevance.”

“Ordinary workers thus lost a hard-won source of great spiritual wealth: their sense of pride and self-respect born of the generally acknowledged necessity and importance of their work. No current-day Diego Rivera is painting boldly colored murals of fast food workers, Walmart greeters, and delivery drivers striking heroic poses.”

https://brinklindsey.substack.com/p/the-declining-leverage-and-status