While it is true that we no longer live in a simpler time, in which, for instance, we frequented our neighborhood store for groceries as well as sundry items, and ate at our local family restaurant; what has replaced such, often with impressive efficiencies, which while clearly offering some great advantages for the average consumer, also represents some significant disadvantages along with some incumbent dangers to society and to America, in whole. To wit, when long established retail stores, are replaced by behemoths, such as Amazon, that ship everything to everybody, the local tax base as well as local employment of certain communities is typically decimated. So too, when the banking system gets so large and are permitted to make outrageous gambles in derivatives and financial instruments that are not easily comprehended by regular citizens, of which, inevitably these so-called investing geniuses make mistakes or get too caught up in greed and thereby fail, it is the American government that thereby determines that these banking institutions are “too big to fail,” seemingly not understanding that a business that is too big to fail, is by definition, a structure which is outside capitalism, and is, instead, an artificial construction specifically set up to privatize its profits for the benefit of its executives and shareholders, while socializing its failures onto the general public.
So too, we live in a world in which, the revolving door of those that are at the pinnacle of private enterprise employment and position, are under this government, somehow permitted to mind the henhouse and thereby, become governmental employees at the highest level, permitted to thereby “regulate” the very business enterprise that they so came from. What could be better for a very large corporation, than having the person that oversees a given business, from the governmental standpoint, be someone that is actually a former employee of high standing of that particular business? Yet, in fact, time and time again, this is what exactly so happens, and of which, legislation, along with rules and regulations are subsequently so passed, specifically favoring those enterprises and therefore making those companies even more profitable, and far less susceptible to the vagaries of the business world, because the game has been pretty much fixed in their perpetual favor.
Nowadays, big government and big corporate enterprises are basically able to join together, so that those huge corporations are provided with carte blanche to do whatever that they so desire to do, at a price and via the means that suits them, and of which, the government makes sure on their behalf, that they will not only not stand in their way, but will often smooth the way for them, of which, further we find that this government, is often so generous that it will either pay for such, or subsidy it, as well.
Corporations primarily are in the business of making profits, of which, they have an obligation to their shareholders to do so, quarter after quarter, forever. That would be fine, if this government, would perform its function on behalf of the general welfare of the people, by imposing what so needs to be imposed upon these corporations which would fairly tax such, as well as making sure that the regular folk that work for these corporations were paid a living wage, and further that the trading and the business so done by these corporations, was always done so on an actual level playing field.