[Vladiator]

Who ever would have thought that socialism would come from the corporations?

[norraad]

Modern corpos like saving money more than sex.

[rellimpank]

In the nineteenth century, Congress had been reluctant to regulate business. It often granted businesses absurd subsidies (for example, to encourage the railroads to expand across the U.S.), and regulated matters involving navigation, but for the most part, the governing theory was laissez-faire: leave the marketplace alone. In the twentieth century, Congress became increasingly interested in regulating business on a national scale--and there are several theories that attempt to explain why. One of the most intriguing is that presented in Gabriel Kolko's Triumph of Conservativism. Kolko, a socialist historian, unintentionally produced a spectacular defense of laissez-faire capitalism, demonstrating that most of the reason why Congress went into a frenzy of economic regulation in the Progressive Era (1900-16) was because the robber barons of the time were unable to figure out how to monopolize major industries--and so they needed the federal government's assistance.4 --

The above quote from Clayton Cramer's column in Shotgun News indicates it's not a new problem, either--(bold is mine)--

[TChris]

Who ever would have thought that socialism would come from the corporations?

The competition will use whatever means necessary to deny Wal-Mart any ground. They'd probably be willing to shoot themselves in the head if it meant Wal-Mart couldn't have it.