Did the NYT reporter think to ask what part union contracts played in making the steel and auto-related industries leave Ohio, and Michigan, and Indiana? Unions are a version of a Ponzi scheme. The first ones in make a lot of money, businesses can’t afford their escalating costs and close or move, and there are no jobs except government “make work” jobs left.
That is how Punky runs his business on credit. Unlike his elders who actually made a profit at the New York Times but I guess profit is a bad word at New York Times.