By forcing them back to work to avoid a disruption to the economy, Biden only guaranteed a slower and more permanent destruction of the rail industry and damage the economy exactly as he tried to avoid.

People don't work under these conditions, so they'll quit, and retire. The rail companies won't fill the slots that opened up, and the slow bleed will continue, until there aren't enough people to run the industry, making the whole thing implode.

But a few people became fabulously wealthy, so it's all worth it.