The Tycoons broke laws that politicians refused to enforce or were complicit in, period.
It is no more possible for an employer to hold you over a barrel than what you allow and the very nature of free choice.
Less Govt equals more jobs, always has, always will.
Read my previous please.
Oh, I don't disagree entirely with what you're saying at all. I'm just aware that the actual core of these problems is human nature. I'm leery of anybody saying that it's "one side's" fault, and that the "other side" has no fault in it. Life doesn't happen in a vacuum. A LOT of bad things (socialism, communism, etc.) have come about as a reaction to other bad things (unbridled greed, ego, hunger for power). Which comes first~it all depends upon who's holding the power. I'm old and jaded enough to have seen it in everyone - including myself.
Not to get too philosophical on you, but the Golden Rule truly IS the only solution to all of these things. The fact that it is so rarely practiced is one reason you have such polarity in America. Everyone is either an Ayn Rand freak, or a communist. Like many other things in life, the answer to the labor/management problem is: Balance.
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