Reply #38: "Monopolies are BAD for people"

[The2ndWheel]

But the government of, by, and for the people is a monopoly.

"We are talking about what is best for PEOPLE not corporations."

But corporations exist, and act in the same way. Corporations consolidate power by merging. Unions want more members. It's the same coin, just different sides of it.

"Have you ever tried to get a Union recognized in a non-union plant? I have. As a member of the carpenters union, I was mainly off during the winter. My wife worked for a manufacturing company whose employees were trying to unionize. The company fired all of the organizers. They hired "Union busters." They had the local police on their side and terrorized and arrested strikers. I was helping out and was arrested too. They eventually "went out of business." They re-opened the next week under a new name and hired new employees.They still pay their workers minimum wage, while the owners live like royalty. You can keep your fiefdoms, Americans deserve a slice of the pie. They do all of the work."

Yet we continue to try and make it easier for ourselves to be able to stay in the corporate world, by having the government make it easier to form unions, so that we can continue working for the corporation. It's still their pie. They still own the ingredients. Maybe that there is only one pie is the problem. As you said, Americans deserve a slice of the pie. The idea of a single pie is the ultimate dream of the consolidated power of organizations. That would mean that there is no alternative. That there is no existence outside of its own consolidated power structure. We complain about that all the time, yet all we do is make it easier for ourselves to be another cog in the machine.