> Companies don't put me in prison No, but they can create situations where you have a debt to them, and they influence local enforcement policy that results i

> Companies don't put me in prison No, but they can create situations where you have a debt to them, and they influence local enforcement policy that results in you being in "debtors' prison". > Companies don't enslave me. Just as one example, when Walmart comes to your small town and kills many of the local small businesses, you're left with two choices: move to another town, or work at Walmart. You have family/roots in the area, so you work at Walmart. And now you may have a lower wage, fewer benefits, and generally poorer options for living compared to life before Walmart moved in. > Only criminal organizations and governments do those sorts of things. It really can be argued that many large companies are criminal organizations, at least by some definitions. Walmart has lost high profile court cases with respect to worker treatment, and it was proved that Walmart intentionally broke laws. That is criminal. Some very large banks have been proved to have actively laundered large amounts of money for criminal organizations. Many other large companies have been exposed as behaving in criminal ways. Whistleblowers in some such companies have had their careers and lives ruined by the companies they worked for.