Employers were caught by surprise with the Great Resignation. Previously, no matter how badly they treated their workers, it was better than the alternative, so workers put up with it. The Great Resignation represents the breaking point where people would rather starve than continue to be exploited. No matter how many difficulties our political leaders put on labor, many of them will simply refuse to play the game and be exploited. The average American worker is worse off than a medieval peasant or slave, and they know it. People will need to be enticed back to work with better pay, better treatment, better benefits, and so on, or the Great Resignation will continue, confounding analysts who are used to reading the tea leaves from the last 40 years of labor decline.