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I think "Corporate America" has been in this game for at least a hundred years, possibly longer. I'm not saying I agree with it, but obviously the negatives ar
by thebigshane 15y ago
I think "Corporate America" has been in this game for at least a hundred years, possibly longer. I'm not saying I agree with it, but obviously the negatives aren't as bad as you think they are; Corporate America seems alive and well and ready to continue another hundred years. Let's hope we can regain control of our "representatives" in government soon.
- yuhong 15y agoI think it began in the 1980s in the era of "corporate raiders".
- thebigshane 15y agoI think you're mostly right; that's when it got really big. But it began long before... Standard Oil, United Fruit Company, JP Morgan, DuPont, CitiBank, Associated Press, Pfizer, Macy's, and I haven't even gotten to the Civil War era yet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_raider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_companies#1825_to_1851 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street#Nineteenth_century