Here we go again. Some of the arsonists coming back to firefight. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/business/coronavirus-new-york-city-minority-workers.html

We don't need these CEOs to start something new. We need many of them to stop doing what they do.

This is vintage MarketWorld -- promote fake change to avoid the real kind.

If you're really worried about opportunity and dignity, lobby for changes in the law -- a higher minimum wage, greater labor protections, a wealth tax, housing support, universal childcare, and other improvements to our threadbare safety net.

Some of these do-gooding CEOs are, in fact, among the great obstacles to real change.

Take Jamie Dimon with his leadership of the Business Roundtable, which sings from the hymnal of stakeholder capitalism while lobbying against laws to make it an actual thing.

Take Jeff Bezos with his squeezed workers.

Take David Solomon, running a bank that helped cause the financial crisis that threw millions onto the street.

Take Larry Fink, who continues to finance the roasting of the planet.

We don't need this council of CEOs to invent some new way of doing good.

We need them to do less harm, and the only way that's actually going to happen is over their objections, by law.

As someone whom Jamie Dimon once reached out to to understand why people don't like Jamie Dimon, let me say that if you are Jamie Dimon and wish to do good, you should ask: What can I do to reduce the wealth and power and impunity of Jamie Dimon?

The people who got us into this mess won't save us from it.

Causing problems isn't a qualification for leading the search for solutions.

There is a way to make sure people have good, secure, well-paying jobs, and it's to reduce the power of oligarchs, so we no longer live in an oligarchy.

Do you really think any initiative from oligarchs will tend in that direction?

Selflessness is often a mask for self-defense.

Do not put the arsonists of opportunity in charge of firefighting.

Do not charge foxes with hen protection.

When you see a problem like worker struggle, look for a solution that is public, institutional, democratic, and universal -- that solves the problem for all, at the root.