Her most concrete achievement so far has been to make wages in San Jose more rigid.
It is to fight back against abuses that make wages and job conditions worse for everyone.
Just as importantly for the generals, it would make waging war less prey to the politics of body bags.
"It's easy to make wages the culprit, but wages did not give you problems like the Ford Pinto.
Oh, and someone is sure to chime in and say that this proves that the solution to unemployment is to make wages more flexible.
"We never had the opportunity to make wages like this before," says Ms. Castillo, a soft-spoken woman who earns $500 a month.
Living standards would rise more quickly, the OECD argues, if the government reformed product markets, to promote competition, and labour markets, to make wages more flexible.
By easing the burden on war ministries, Nightingale argued, volunteer efforts could simply make waging war more attractive, and more probable.
In a few months, as tourists descend on these neighborhoods, every Briton working inside the Olympic perimeter, including tea fetchers and souvenir shop workers, will make wages worth about $4 an hour above this country's minimum wage.
Groucho Marx once quipped, "What makes wage slaves?
