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at the constant assumptions that the corporations in America are somehow any different than the government. Who do you think runs the government right now? Us? Nope.
There's a slanted perspective on the power of corporations in America because corporations have never, over the course of the industrial revolution and into the twentieth century, been unable to coerce the populace through borrowed governmental power. When the national guard breaks up the union strike, that's an example of corporacracy. Ditto regulations and bureaucracies, which on the face of it control environmental degradation or promote consumer rights, which instead actually just promote the corporate status quo by stifling innovation.
When McDonald's feeds your kid that e. coli burger, you sue them for criminal neglect! That's where the government should be involved in the market... in the courts, to protect the rights of individuals, not in the bureaucracies, to protect the rights of corporations.
