In times of labor strength, employers and governors simulate empathy, restrained by necessity. But when conditions shift, their façade dissolves.
What remains is naked dominion—a return to feudal dynamics where ownership, not stewardship, defines power.
This shift reveals a truth: care was never a principle, only a strategy.
As political and economic climates embolden the powerful, governance becomes cartel-like—self-interested, extractive, and immune to moral accountability. The worker, once a stakeholder, is again a subject, a serf.
We are all polite in not recognizing this illusion of mutuality. When under pressure, it dissapates and domination resumes its ancient, unapologetic form: never rely too heavily on sympathy because it has no real leverage, except to expose what was always the case.