There were other noteworthy facts about this debate on worker pay. These are times of agitation and hashtag-trending protest, so you might have expected someone in national politics to rush in and slay the clear injustice of DoorDash’s pay plan. For instance, members of the supposedly socialist-overrun Democratic Party. Didn’t the Democratic House majority just pass a minimum wage bill that includes reforms to the compensation of tipped workers? Wouldn’t such a bill protect DoorDash’s “dashers”?

Hah, no: The Democrats’ bill says nothing about DoorDash dashers or any other gig workers, because technically they are independent contractors and not actually employees — a bookkeeping loophole of enormous consequence that lawmakers are doing little to address.

Not that it would have made much immediate difference to dashers if they were covered by the bill, because the Democrats’ plan only gets to its headline $15-per-hour minimum wage in the year 2025. I suppose the idea is to give America’s workers something sunny to look forward to in the first year of Ivanka Trump’s presidency.

Of course, I’m kidding. The minimum wage is likely to be unchanged by Ivanka’s inauguration, because despite the enormous popularity of raising it, the Democrats’ bill has no chance of passing Mitch McConnell’s Senate, and Fox News is already full of resentment about the notion that coddled minimum-wage workers have anything to complain about.

Yes, you read that correctly: Democrats offered a six-year phase-in as a concession to moderates in a bill destined never to become law. Such is the state of workers’ rights — and workers’ political power — today. Even the symbolic victories are milquetoast.

We are told that we are living in the best economy ever in the history of economies. We are told we have a president who loves and is loved by the working class. And we are warned that there is a rebellious contingent among the left that loves working people and other politically powerless minorities too insistently.

Some pundits are even now beginning to worry that Democrats are moving too swiftly toward revolution — that offering free health care, free college and promises of living wages will turn off the vast middle of the country that just wants to return to the pre-Trump status quo of 2015, when everything was wonderful for everyone.