Government, Business and Freedom

Here's some thoughts from William T. Powers that were "inspired" by some of my discussion of taxes. I think they are worth making a Mental Note of:

A sudden thought inspired somehow by this thread. Maybe it was the back-and-forth between government spending and private spending. It suddenly struck me that what is meant by "private" is not the consumer or wage-earner, but the dictatorships that divide the United States into both large and small power centers: businesses.

Businesses are not democracies. They are owned; their policies are determined by their owners. The rules that govern the workers are not voted upon; they are announced. The division of income between workers and owners is whatever the owners find they can get away with and still have the business function; the owners almost always take a share vastly larger than any one worker's share. When economic conditions reduce the owners' income, workers are simply disposed of and left to fend for themselves. Workers who complain publicly about the business policies, or who reveal illegal or dishonest activities by the business, can be dismissed without trial or hearing. Businesses compete; they do not work together for the common good.

I'm sure that many other aspects of the business dictatorships could be spelled out. Other terms, of course, could be substituted, such as kingdom or duchy or fiefdom, as long as the meaning is "control of the many by and for the benefit of the few." I think that is the main underlying conflict in the United States and elsewhere.

I wonder what would happen if this view were more publicly discussed?