"San Francisco sits at the center of the wealth inequality gripping the country, a place where fortunes scale at historic speed while the gap between those who produce value and those who capture it continues to widen. As I reflect on my own NFL career and life playing the game that will light up screens for more than 100 million Americans this weekend,"
"It's the open wound of American life, the oldest and most dangerous fault line in our society. It's the question that took me from the trenches of pro football to the trenches of labor organizing with the NFL Players Association. Today it's the question of our time, as a single man's fortune approaches $1 trillion, as wealth and power concentrate in a handful of men richer than nation-states,"
The Super Bowl functions as an American spectacle reflecting culture, celebrity, and values. San Francisco hosting highlights national wealth inequality where fortunes grow rapidly while the gap between value producers and value captors widens. A former NFL linebacker earned a living for seven seasons and left at 29 because he could no longer ignore who benefits from the league's wealth. Players fought owners not only for higher pay but for choice, the freedom to decide where to work, and humane treatment. Historical owner dominance prompted labor organizing through the NFL Players Association to rebalance power. Contemporary concentration of wealth and power among a few threatens democratic equality and risks American oligarchy.
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