pantries to feed their families, many shift workers were forced to delay healthcare or else work when sick because they'd not worked enough consecutive hours (because the were sick, duh) to even take advantage of the sick day policy. 14/

So the first thing is basically I--and many, many others--told you so. Your business practices have turned what would have been a crisis into a cataclysm for millions of American workers. Congrats 15/

The second is when they furloughed workers who were already living close to the bone they shifted the moral burden of caring enough about those who mutually create profits with them onto the state and therefore the tax payers. Disney and others are asking us to pick 16/

Up the tab for their years of whittling way at the dignity of the American worker so that they could transfer all that value WAY upstream to people like me. Yes, people like me have essentially gotten rich off of the oppression--yes it's a weighty word and I mean it--of 17/

and the systematic stripping of dignity from millions of American workers. Because that's how we were taught society works. Because that's what the business schools told us to do. Because that's what Milton Friedman said. Because only shareholders matter. 18/

Greed-is-good business practices are morally bankrupt--not morally neutral or amoral as its defenders claim partly because there is not such thing as morally neutral or amoral, but mainly because it has led the active erosion in the quality of life of millions of our fellow 19/

Americans, it has hollowed out our democracy and left civil society hanging on by a thread, and has led to a nearly uncrossable abyss between a teeny tiny minority of Americans and everyone else. And it has not just allowed but encouraged the lucky few to believe that 20/

This is a just state of affairs. I have an idea. Instead of paying yourself more money than you can ever use, what if you decided to make less and share profits more broadly? Is 10 million dollars a year enough for you? It sounds like a lot to me. 21/

Imagine if Jeff Bezos weren't so intent on being the first trillionaire he only had a few billion dollars because he made a conscious decision to understand his relationship with his workers as one of mutuality and respect, rather than one like the kidney broker and his victim22/

There is such a thing as too much money after all. I know it's American sacrilege to say to, but there just is. How about we have a national conversation about the meaning of wealth. The meaning of work, and what the compact should be between employers and employees 23/