Reply #48: When capitalism/corporations are regulated . . . they pretty much ensure that they

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put in leadership which cooperates with the regulations --

I'm speaking of the past now . . .

but that leadership still knew the score pretty well --

the injustice towards employees -- advantages for the executives/CEO's ---

they never spoke of it directly, but they were not above -- in my experience ---

giving a trusted worker a little insight. They were the guys in the middle ...

though they were the top executives. They weren't entirely fish nor fowl.

Behind all of this -- in times of regulation pretty well buried -- were elites

biding their times. When times changed and they were deregulated, they put in

different people. In the past decades, they pretty much invited Mafia types in

to "negotiate" with unions and with those attempting to bring unions into

companies. And worse.


Consider the Lily Ledbetter case, for just one example of the things that employees

don't know!

Women are still paid less . . . they frequently left companies they had worked for

for long periods of time without securing retirement benefits -- often due to

marriage interrupting their "careers." This puts them at a disadvantage in Social

Security payments later in life -- and in gaining independence for themselves.

Oft times, women were paid at the most 50% of what males earned for the same work ---

of even for a technically higher position.