 Thousands of workers across multiple industries are currently on strike. Why are they on strike? Perhaps it's because CEO pay has skyrocketed over 1400% since 1978, while typical workers pay increased just 18%. Workers are tired of being underpaid overworked and exploited for their labor. This is why actors, writers, nurses, baristas, hotel housekeepers, journalists, machinists, graduate student teachers, they're all among the workers that have all walked off their jobs in recent months and 150,000 auto workers may soon join them. Now you are going to hear a lot in the media about how disruptive and costly these strikes are for the economy. That is rubbish. This status quo before these strikes was even more disruptive and costly to workers' livelihoods. And here's something else, if you've been told that these strikes have nothing to do with you, you have been lied to. These workers are battling one piece of a bigger monster facing all of us, the growing consolidation of wealth and power in this country into the hands of a few billionaires and their corporations. As corporations and CEOs rank it in at the expense of everyone else, there's power in understanding that we are all in this together.