Trickle down social justice will work out just as well as trickle down economics did.

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1. Yes ...

And I might want to add that if you are interested in labor rights, you should be deeply interested in the documented widespread sexism that exists in the burgeoning tech labor force of our new economy (racism is barely documented here because so few African Americans are even employed). You should be interested in the well-documented fact that identical resumes submitted with a white-sounding name and a black-sounding name receive vastly different treatment. You should be deeply concerned about the conditions of the vast industry of home health care and nursing home workers, overwhelmingly women of color. You should be concerned with unregulated industries such as Uber, whose vast wealth creation for a few people exploit workers and put ordinary citizens at a public safety risk. You should be concerned about a young woman whose economic future is permanently compromised by being forced to bring an unwanted pregnancy to term.

Indeed, I might say that there can be no economic justice until there is social justice. The two are intimately linked.

This isn't the romanticized labor movement of Eugene Debs's 1920s. This is 2017, and there are vast swaths of the American population--women, African Americans, Latinos--who never benefited from the gains of the mostly white male workers that ensued from that movement. This is not the industrial economy of that era. The many who were left out of postwar American prosperity were left out for a reason: social injustice. And until we work to fix that situation, no economic populist program can be called progressive. It's just a return to an imperfect past.