When a multi-billion dollar corporation (X-Mart) forces its employees to go on the dole (for lack of a living wage) and live without health insurance (the provi

When a multi-billion dollar corporation (X-Mart) forces its employees to go on the dole (for lack of a living wage) and live without health insurance (the providence of which companies directly and indirectly lobby heavily to leave in their hands), well, you have to wonder a bit at the assumption of this series of gently gradated authoritative structures: family, neighborhood, religious group, state, nation and world. Oh, wait, he didn't mention employer in all that. Brooks is, for all the controversy surrounding him, a good writer. A good wordsmith. But sometimes he expresses a perspective that appears to be rather sheltered and privileged.