I just finished watching The Irishman. It was surprisingly informative about the history of the labor movement and unions in the US.

It got me thinking about pensions. No one in the progressive movement ever really talks about how pensions have disappeared. Companies basically don’t offer them anymore. They were such an essential part of the promise of the middle class 60 years ago, now they’re gone and no one even brings it up. It’s just a forgone conclusion that we would never be able to get them back. Pretty depressing.