We are in the era of societies breaking ourselves into smaller and smaller identity groups as Western ideals of fairness and governing keep fracturing us further and further into single issue/single interest mindsets...in other words... me, me, me.
This Running Back upset is just another bunch of people seeking identity group status; they want special treatment and attention and are in process of setting itself apart. The idea that a CBA ought to be bargained for identity group by identity group is just not workable...if not nuts. This is a team sport and I don't think there is another sport than American Football that epitomizes that concept. This RB thing reminds me of how politics works in Parliamentary system governments in which the government representatives are broken up into so many identity groups that nothing even close to a group that speaks for the majority is even possible. The result is a constant battle for supremacy among many identity groups....meaning it's various members are opponents... and the loss of a national/community/corporate ethos.
If these RBs honestly think that just because the current design of offenses relies less on RBs, and therefore sees them as more or less disposable or plug and play, that's just how it is. It's a position that can currently usually be accomplished by a committee, as opposed to QB's that are anything but interchangeable. If the better RBs were making hundreds of thousands as compared to the few millions that other positions make, maybe they would have a legitimate beef.
What's so ironic (and laughable) is that a Union always tries to achieve equity and a high degree of sameness for it's members. But here we have some Union members wanting to operate apart, getting special treatment, from the rest of the Union members by claiming special circumstances. And it isn't work conditions that they're complaining about...they want to legislate their value and worth on teams apart from their actual value as determined by those who pay the bill, and apart from all other team members. I can't imagine that the other players of other positions, as a whole, are looking at this very favorably.