who is in control?

 I've noticed this thing going on, and maybe it's obvious to others, and has been obvious, but when money is flowing companies are essentially driving people to come work for them, they are more tolerant with behaviors and opinions of their staff, etc.

On the flip side, when money isn't flowing it's the opposite where before employees are almost 'in control' in this environment the company is in control.

What is interesting in particular to me is that it seems like the government can make this swing each direction, by making money easy, then money is flowing and the first scenario holds. When they turn down the faucet things tighten up, and the second scenario holds. 

What got me wondering is, suppose there was no faucet or big picture control, what would the environment look like, would it naturally balance where they have somewhat equal control (or replace power in the above statements too) would companies naturally be in control, employees?

random idea: meal tracking templates

 I struggle with using apps where I can't mine my own data, at some point I'll make a app that does this, but in the meantime I wanted to take notes in a smallish notebook. While laying in bed I got to thinking, I have a 3d printer, I could design a template that I lay over the page, draw out each of the meals/snacks boxes, and maybe a column for calories and a total box. This could be handy for just having a nice form to fill out but in paper form.

Ive been wanting to track what I eat for at least 2 reasons. 1. Sometimes I feel like crap, heartburn/etc. I want data to look back at. 2. I would like to lose some weight. I'm not huge but I think if I have limited space to write what I'm eating I might be more cognizant of what I end up eating.

I could also do one for health tracking. Of course I could maybe also design it so I just trace the words in the headings/rows, but just having defined spaces might be cool.

If I do this (good chance) I'll update this post with images.