The idea is to keep you off balance. Since you are pretty unbalanced as it is, I only have to be reasonable on rare ocassions. That seems to do the trick.
Re: Capitalism and freedom, only the capitalists are free. The workers who produce whatever product is being produced are at the mercy of the capitalist.
Prior to the advent of the labor unions, the treatment of workers was a disgrace. They were treated worse than slaves since slaves, having to be purchased, represented a capital outlay and, like a machine or a horse,were maintained.
Not so with the free worker.He worked for starvation wages for 14 hours a day. He often lived in company housing and was paid in company scrip which was only good at the company store.
If he tried to strike for better conditions, the factory owned could ask the government to send in troops to "put down the rebellion".
The unions gradually put a stop to all this. Unfortunately, "BIG" labor is now in bed with the politicians. We will see where this leads. I have seen abuses on the local level where union officials played managments game in return for preferential treatment in other areas.
I have no doubt that it is the same higher up.

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