What If the Government Realized That Excluding American Workers From the Negotiating Table Would Destroy What They’re Trying to Protect?

Let’s cut through the bullshit. The American government—along with its corporate partners—has spent decades systematically excluding workers from economic decision-making. They’ve convinced themselves this is necessary to “protect” American competitiveness, economic growth, and national prosperity.

But here’s the brutal truth they refuse to see: By fucking over American workers, they’re destroying the very thing they claim to be protecting.

What Are They Actually Trying to Protect?

When politicians and corporate leaders talk about “protecting America,” what do they mean? Strip away the rhetoric, and you find they’re trying to protect:

• Corporate profits and shareholder value
• American economic dominance in global markets
• Political stability and the existing power structure
• The capitalist system itself
• National security and global influence

Noble goals, perhaps. But here’s the problem: Every single one of these depends on American workers having economic security, purchasing power, and a stake in the system.

You can’t protect American capitalism by destroying the American consumer class. You can’t maintain political stability by creating economic desperation. You can’t preserve national security by hollowing out the middle class that funds it.

The Self-Destructive Logic of Worker Exclusion

The government and corporate America have operated under a catastrophically flawed assumption: that they can maximize their interests by minimizing workers’ power and compensation. This logic goes:

1. Lower labor costs = higher profits
2. Weaker unions = more management flexibility
3. Reduced worker power = better “business climate.”
4. Therefore: Fucking workers = protecting American prosperity

This is economic suicide dressed up as strategy.

Here’s why: The American economy is 70% consumer spending. Who are those consumers? Workers. When you systematically reduce workers’ wages, eliminate their job security, crush their ability to negotiate, and exclude them from economic decision-making, you’re not protecting the economy—you’re killing it.

The Mechanisms of Self-Destruction

Let’s trace exactly how excluding workers destroys what the government claims to protect:

Destroying Consumer Demand

The Setup: Corporations and government collaborate to suppress wages, weaken unions, and shift economic gains to shareholders and executives.

The Immediate Result: Corporate profits soar—stock markets boom. The wealthy get wealthier.

The Long-Term Consequence: Workers can’t afford the products and services corporations produce. Consumer demand weakens. Economic growth stalls. The very profits they were trying to protect begin to erode.

The Irony: They destroyed the consumer base to maximize short-term profits, thereby destroying long-term profitability.

Destroying Political Stability

The Setup: Workers are excluded from economic decision-making. Their wages stagnate. Their financial security evaporates. They lose faith in democratic institutions.

The Immediate Result: Political elites maintain control. Corporate interests dominate policy-making. The system appears stable.

The Long-Term Consequence: Economic desperation breeds political extremism. Workers, feeling abandoned by traditional institutions, turn to authoritarian populists who promise to burn down the system. Political polarization intensifies. Democratic norms erode.

The Irony: They excluded workers to maintain political stability, thereby creating the conditions for political chaos.

Destroying Competitive Advantage

The Setup: To “compete globally,” America suppresses worker wages, reduces benefits, and eliminates job security.

The Immediate Result: Lower labor costs. Higher corporate profits. Apparent competitive advantage.

The Long-Term Consequence: Demoralized, insecure workers are less productive, less innovative, and less invested in their work. Meanwhile, nations that invest in their workers (Germany, Scandinavia) develop more skilled, productive, and innovative workforces. America’s competitive advantage erodes.

The Irony: They fucked workers to enhance competitiveness, thereby destroying the foundation of competitive advantage.

Destroying Social Cohesion

The Setup: Economic exclusion creates massive inequality. The wealthy live in a different world from workers. Social mobility disappears.

The Immediate Result: The wealthy can insulate themselves from the consequences: gated communities, private schools, and private healthcare.

The Long-Term Consequence: Social trust collapses—communities fragment. Crime increases. Mental health crises proliferate. The social fabric that holds society together disintegrates.

The Irony: They created inequality to protect their wealth, thereby creating a society where wealth can’t buy security.

Destroying Capitalism Itself

The Setup: Capitalism is defended by crushing worker power and maximizing corporate profits at all costs.

The Immediate Result: Capitalism appears triumphant. Markets are “free.” Profits are maximized.

The Long-Term Consequence: Workers lose faith in capitalism. They see a system rigged against them. Support for socialist and anti-capitalist alternatives grows. The legitimacy of capitalism itself is called into question.

The Irony: They destroyed worker power to protect capitalism, thereby creating the conditions for capitalism’s potential demise.

The Unsustainability of Fucking Workers

Here’s the fundamental truth that government and corporate leaders refuse to acknowledge: You cannot build a sustainable economic system on the systematic exploitation and exclusion of the majority of participants.

It’s not a moral argument—though it should be. It’s a practical one. Systems that exclude and exploit the majority are inherently unstable and self-destructive.

Think about it:

• You can’t have a consumer economy without consumers who can afford to consume.
• You can’t have political stability when the majority feels economically desperate.
• You can’t have innovation when workers are too insecure to take risks.
• You can’t have social cohesion when inequality is extreme.
• You can’t have capitalism when most people conclude that capitalism doesn’t work for them.

Every time the government and corporations fuck workers—suppress wages, crush unions, eliminate benefits, offshore jobs, automate without transition support—they’re sawing off the branch they’re sitting on.

The Specific Ways They’re Destroying What They Protect

Let’s get concrete about how worker exclusion is actively destroying the things the government claims to protect:

Corporate Profits (Long-Term)

What they’re doing: Suppressing wages to maximize short-term profits.

What they’re destroying: the revenue-generating consumer base. As workers’ purchasing power declines, so does demand for products and services. Corporate profits may rise in the short term, but they’re unsustainable without a healthy consumer class.

The math: If workers’ share of GDP falls from 65% to 55%, that’s trillions of dollars in lost consumer spending. Where do corporations think their revenue will come from?

American Economic Dominance

What they’re doing: Competing on low wages rather than high skills.

What they’re destroying: The educated, skilled, innovative workforce that made America economically dominant. By treating workers as costs to minimize rather than assets to develop, America is ceding its competitive advantage to nations that invest in their people.

The reality: China invests in education and infrastructure. Germany invests in worker training and co-determination. America invests in… stock buybacks and executive compensation.

Political Stability

What they’re doing: Excluding workers from economic decision-making while expecting them to remain politically docile.

What they’re destroying: The social contract that makes democratic governance possible. When people feel the system is rigged against them, they stop supporting the system. Political extremism, social unrest, and institutional collapse follow.

The warning signs: Rising political violence, declining trust in institutions, increasing support for authoritarian alternatives. These aren’t bugs—they’re features of a system that excludes the majority from economic participation.

National Security

What they’re doing: Hollowing out the middle class to maximize corporate profits.

What they’re destroying: The economic foundation that funds military power and the social cohesion that makes national unity possible. A nation of desperate, divided workers cannot maintain global power.

The threat: How do you maintain a military when young people can’t afford to live? How do you project power globally when your domestic economy is collapsing? How do you retain alliances when your own citizens are in revolt?

The Capitalist System

What they’re doing: Defending “free market capitalism” by crushing worker power.

What they’re destroying: The legitimacy of capitalism itself. When capitalism is experienced as a system that enriches the few while impoverishing the many, support for capitalism evaporates.

The danger: The greatest threat to capitalism isn’t socialism—it’s a version of capitalism so predatory and exclusive that it turns the majority of people into anti-capitalists.

The Moment of Reckoning

We’re approaching a moment of reckoning. The contradictions of excluding workers while claiming to protect American prosperity are becoming impossible to ignore:

• Record corporate profits alongside record worker insecurity
• Soaring stock markets alongside stagnant wages
• Massive wealth concentration alongside declining life expectancy
• Technological advancement alongside economic desperation

These contradictions aren’t sustainable. Something has to give.

The question is: Will the government realize that excluding workers is destroying what they’re trying to protect before the system collapses? Or will they continue fucking workers until there’s nothing left to defend?

What Realization Would Look Like

If the government actually realized that excluding workers destroys what they’re trying to protect, policy would change dramatically:

Protecting Corporate Profits (Sustainably)

Old approach: Suppress wages to maximize short-term profits.

New approach: Ensure workers have purchasing power to sustain long-term demand. This means supporting collective bargaining, raising minimum wages, and ensuring workers share in productivity gains.

The logic: Healthy workers = healthy consumers = sustainable corporate profits.

Protecting Economic Dominance

Old approach: Compete on low wages.

New approach: Compete on high skills, innovation, and productivity. This means massive investment in education, training, and worker development.

The logic: The most competitive economies invest in their people, not exploit them.

Protecting Political Stability

Old approach: Exclude workers from economic decision-making.

New approach: Include workers in economic governance through collective bargaining, worker representation on corporate boards, and participatory economic policy-making.

The logic: People support systems they have a stake in. Exclusion breeds instability; inclusion breeds stability.

Protecting National Security

Old approach: Hollow out the middle class to maximize corporate profits.

New approach: Build a robust middle class as the foundation of national power.

The logic: National security depends on economic strength, social cohesion, and citizen buy-in. All of these require worker economic security.

Protecting Capitalism

Old approach: Defend capitalism by crushing worker power.

New approach: Save capitalism by making it work for workers. This means ensuring that economic growth is broadly shared, that workers have genuine economic opportunity, and that capitalism delivers on its promise of prosperity.

The logic: Capitalism’s survival depends on its legitimacy. Legitimacy depends on delivering for the majority, not just the elite.

The Brutal Truth

Here’s the brutal truth that government and corporate leaders need to hear:

Fucking workers is not a sustainable act.

You cannot build a prosperous economy by impoverishing the majority. You cannot maintain political stability by creating economic desperation. You cannot preserve capitalism by making it work only for capitalists. You cannot protect America by destroying Americans.

Every policy that excludes workers from the negotiating table, every decision that prioritizes short-term profits over long-term sustainability, every action that treats workers as costs rather than stakeholders—these aren’t protecting anything. They’re destroying everything.

The Choice

The government faces a choice:

Option 1: Continue excluding workers from economic decision-making. Continue suppressing wages, crushing unions, and maximizing short-term corporate profits. Watch as consumer demand collapses, political stability erodes, competitive advantage disappears, social cohesion disintegrates, and capitalism itself loses legitimacy. Watch as everything they’re trying to protect is destroyed by the very policies meant to protect it.

Option 2: Realize that worker inclusion is not a threat to prosperity but a prerequisite for it. Realize that strong unions, good wages, and worker power aren’t obstacles to economic success but foundations of it. Realize that you cannot protect American prosperity by fucking American workers.

The choice should be obvious. But if history is any guide, the obvious choice is often the last one made—usually after every alternative has been exhausted and the damage is catastrophic.

The Final Warning

To the government, to corporate leaders, to anyone with power over economic policy:

You are destroying what you’re trying to protect.

Every time you exclude workers from the negotiating table, you weaken the consumer base that drives economic growth. Every time you suppress wages, you undermine the purchasing power that generates corporate profits. Every time you crush unions, you eliminate the institutions that channel worker discontent into productive negotiation rather than destructive revolt.

You think you’re protecting American prosperity. You’re actually destroying it.

You think you’re maintaining stability. You’re actually creating chaos.

You think you’re defending capitalism. You’re actually discrediting it.

Fucking workers is not a sustainable act. It never has been. It never will be.

The only question is whether you’ll realize this before it’s too late—or whether you’ll continue down this path until there’s nothing left to protect.

The clock is ticking. The contradictions are mounting. The system is straining.

What will it take for you to realize that excluding workers destroys everything you’re trying to save?