This is what happens when the government represents corporations rather than the individual. Voters have a small effect compared to lobbyists for large corps.

This is what happens when the government represents corporations rather than the individual. Voters have a small effect compared to lobbyists for large corps. Is there also an effect in the US that individual states compete against each other in providing better environments to employers. The other extreme from this is a state that is anti business and has no jobs, but there has to be some middle ground. The Occupy Wall Street movement was useless, they should have created a political party and got some power. Employees compete against each other, the two guys/gals in your office who work 80 hours a week will be put ahead of those who only work 40. If you don't want to lose your job in the next round of redundancies, you'd better be running faster on your treadmill than the next guy! Unions are dead everywhere except some specialised industries.