We need to Build the labor movement to strong arm the fuck out of the capitalists. Roosevelt didn’t make all these reforms happen because he was just a nice guy. Communists, socialists, and anarchists, forced him to.
These are “positive” rights; and many conservatives are fond of drawing the distinction between “positive” rights (which they abhor) and “negative” rights (which they support). But I think history demonstrates that positive rights are needed if we are to enjoy negative rights.