Many companies have slashed benefits (or eliminated them completely), cut back on retirement plans, reduced wages and vacation time, and kept salaries and wages stagnant for decades (even though we’re working more hours and remain as productive as ever).
More audaciously, many of these same businesses are rallying against government programs that have consequently become the only lifeline for people. For example, some Walmart stores are known to give their employees tips on how to get food stamps. Just leave it to the state to sort out the mess and then blame the state for getting “too big” - precisely because you’ve left it to them to sort out the mess.
If private enterprises don’t like big government, why don’t they prove we don’t need it? Why don’t they behave more socially and environmentally responsible? Why don’t they pay people well enough so that they could actually afford to survive with public assistance? Calls for regulation and public services are more often than not a direct response to the failure of businesses to look after workers like they used to.
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