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In reply to the discussion: It's getting real hard to tell just who destroyed the economy... [View all]jwirr
(39,215 posts)incorporate. And some of our US corporations we would have a really hard time without them. What I am mostly afraid of are the international corporations who are so involved in the total idea of globalization expressed in NAFTA and now the TPP that blur the idea of government sovereignty.
However I grew up during WWII and corporatism has a special ring to it for me. That is what we were fighting in that war. Government and business/corporations united under the label Nazi.
Throughout history there has definitely been an income inequality as you pointed out with slavery. Usually that does not work out so well in the end. I read somewhere that it was the inequality in 1929 that led to the Great Depression. I would like to avoid that again if we can. But I am not really sure it is possible to avoid. As I have said the rich are not going to surrender their riches easily. Look at the states who refused to participate in the ACA. People are actually getting the idea that they can just ignore laws and they will go away.