Indeed. And why are there not 150 small local auto companies in America, as once was the case, all providing local jobs in many different cities, all competing against each other and producing a unique quality product? Why has it been comglomerated into a handful of huge outfits in Detroit which produce crummy vehicles at inflated prices? What we have witnessed in a hundred years is the destruction of small scale capitalism as it once existed, and its replacement by multi-national conglomerates in the hands of an elite few who ship most of the jobs to the Third World and destroy local jobs and industy in North America. We are now seeing the destruction of the middle class and the division of society into a few very rich and a great many powerless poor...a poor who are told they still have a choice at the polls...but they don't, because the elite few control BOTH the Republican and the Democratic parties and control government policy by financing the election campaigns. It is the servants of the corporate elite who get elected to office, because only those people can receive sufficient funding and media coverage to get elected in the first place. Once in office, they do as they are told...or suffer the consequences, and the consequences are not nice.