I have read this speech before, it was more amusing when it had the line 'workers of the world unite'.
it's easy to dismiss complaints of a lack of parity, I guess. But in reality, historically, management made approximately 6 times what the workers did, IIRC. Now top management earns approximately 22 times what the workers earn. That type of absurd burden creates societal rifts that we see in banana republics. Companies (and certain members of the public) then ignore the burden of those out-sized salaries as well as golden parachutes for failed CEO's but complain that they provide health coverage to workers and keep cutting back on workers' benefts... all while certain people bemoan the existence of collective bargaining which only partly levels the playing field.
And you think government is the solution for what you consider is an imbalance?
It's an imperfect tool, but its the only tool that a representational republic has. Of course when that tool is wielded by the master class (as ours is for the most part) then of course government is their hand maiden and the democracy becomes a shamocracy.
Government CREATED the imbalance by inserting itself too deeply into business.
Big money created that imbalance by buying off our government.
Incidently both are basically saying the same thing.
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