Bingo. This has been a general trend across all measures; as productivity and technology have made things more efficient and profitable, corporations and their

Bingo. This has been a general trend across all measures; as productivity and technology have made things more efficient and profitable, corporations and their government patsies have had no interest other than lining executive and investor pockets. No lowering of prices, no increasing wages, no improvement of quality of living, no improvement of benefits, no public-good spending, etc. It has all been pure exploitative, carpetbagger type of pilfering of rigged sham markets; pump, dump, and support the fraudulent the price. Anyone who thinks the American market is a free trade market is abjectly delusional; it's a market of dominant cartels who make mediocre efforts at appearing to provide choice and act competitive just like our inept and antiquated political parties and structure. Collusion has all but removed real choice in all of our markets.