Despite the debate over short-term effects, I think many forget that this is a rebellion over a general and widespread shift of income and wealth toward higher-

Despite the debate over short-term effects, I think many forget that this is a rebellion over a general and widespread shift of income and wealth toward higher-paid executives and knowledge workers, and away from lower-paid service and production workers. There are a ton of possible reasons for this (less powerful unions, automation, globalization, etc. etc.) but my favorite is that it happened simply because it could happen; because wages concentrate power and therefore self-reinforce. The power vacuum (and therefore value vacuum) that emerged out of that shift was filled, because it was available. This is an effort to break that self-reinforcing cycle and say, hey, we as a society do not support the idea that corporations exist solely for the benefit of shareholders; we demand that they start existing a little more for the benefit of their employees too. We can debate about what effects it will have or not til the cows come home, but the large scale effort is sensible and commendable to create a better economic balance. So far, there's very little evidence to show that it will make the sky fall.