Bloomberg uncovered a brutal democratic fact: working people make up most of the labor force, yet barely appear in legislatures. This essay follows the worker beyond that statistic and shows how the disappearance happens—through inflexible work schedules, lost wages, primary elections, party recruitment, professional political careers, and repeated institutional filtering before voters ever reach the ballot. The problem isn’t that workers lack ambition or governing ability. It’s that formal political equality rests on a social order that distributes time, money, networks, and political experience by class. If workers are to enter politics in force, organization has to change who gets produced as a political leader.