Allow me to offer a counterpoint to the claims that it’s the employers who are to blame for this “breaking point”. Might it be possible that employees are feeli

Allow me to offer a counterpoint to the claims that it’s the employers who are to blame for this “breaking point”. Might it be possible that employees are feeling empowered to dictate terms, and what we have it not a breaking point issue, but rather two opposing forces of the market: Business which seeks labor at the lowest cost and labor which seeks employment at the highest cost. I don’t think this is ultimately winnable by the labor. Companies exist to make a profit, and when they don’t make a profit, things change usually not in favor of labor; outsourcing and robotics come to mind. Business IMO will not magically begin to care what labor thinks, nor will they capitulate. Unless we are willing to upend capitalism, which I think is not even academically feasible in America, business will eventually win out. So this breaking point is not really a point, but an aberration that business has faced many times before.