I'd love to live in a world where collective action by workers could be considered an abuse of power. The workers would be way better off in such a world. It i

I'd love to live in a world where collective action by workers could be considered an abuse of power. The workers would be way better off in such a world. It is completely insane and probably symptomatic of the extremely successful doublethink anti-union campaign by big business in the US to think organized workers could ever pose a larger threat to democracy than corporations you are grouping with the government as victims. What a lot of people don't realize is that incorporation under US law is functionally franchising an elected government. The difference is that instead of the members of the business getting the votes the votes are called shares and are controlled by an oligarchy majority of shareholders. The means by which the vast majority of businesses are run (with exception to many nonprofits, public benefit corporations, and coops) is what many would consider antithetical to how to run society fairly. And then people are surprised that such unaccountable undemocratic systems produce blatant corruption - except people don't even call it corruption despite it being a direct mapping to public corruption, they call it business as usual or meeting earnings expectations. But no, the influence of THAT system of organization is fine - better, adored. Aspired towards. Workers trying to have more equal negotiations by working together though? Threat to democracy.