ALT As Russell argued in Class Interests Regulating the Labor Supply in Disability Policy this is no accident: "public policy that equates disablement with poverty means that becoming disabled (a nonworker) translates into a life of financial hardship, whether one has public assistance or not, and generates a very realistic fear in workers for becoming disabled." The inadequate social safety net is not an oversight or error made by people who, but for their prejudice, should know better, but a highly sophisticated means of controlling the means of production: "If workers were provided with a federal social safety net that adequately protected them through unemployment, sickness, disability, and old age, then business would have less control over the workforce because labor would gain a stronger position...business retains its power over the working class through a fear of destitution that would be weakened if the safety net were to actually become safe Russell's work is key to the futur…