Employees must share in the wealth their labor creates, but models designed to achieve this fall short — largely because they try to sidestep becoming prey to the exact monopolistic market forces that produce wealth inequality in the first place, and in so doing, also sidestep any real opportunity to build worker wealth.

We do need more abundant housing, public transportation, and energy infrastructure, but forfeiting labor, environmental, and democratic values to get there can’t be the answer.

If public programs are worth funding, the state should fund them — but not by further entrenching regulatory capture by powerful utility monopolies, and certainly not by making it harder for Americans to heat their homes.

If public programs are worth funding, the state should fund them — but not by further entrenching regulatory capture by powerful utility monopolies, and certainly not by making it harder for Americans to heat their homes.

We do need more abundant housing, public transportation, and energy infrastructure, but forfeiting labor, environmental, and democratic values to get there can’t be the answer.

Employees must share in the wealth their labor creates, but models designed to achieve this fall short — largely because they try to sidestep becoming prey to the exact monopolistic market forces that produce wealth inequality in the first place, and in so doing, also sidestep any real opportunity to build worker wealth.