For decades, we were promised that a rising tide would lift all boats. Productivity surged. Technology advanced. Markets globalized. Yet for most workers, real wages have stagnated, leaving them stranded while capital sailed ahead. This isn’t a tragic accident. It’s a systemic failure — a failure of coordination among workers in a world where employers have learned to move faster, scale larger, and bargain harder. We don’t need to overthrow capitalism to fix this. But we do need to make a few...