Going over the Cliff

[Rajvik]

ordnance11 wrote:

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Raivik, I keep thinking you would have been happy during the Gilded Age.  But I would recommend works by Upton Sinclair and other muckrakers of that era to show just how bad working conditions were in those times.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muckracker ... heir_works
And if you think those conditions won't come back, I didn't think indentured servitude no longer existed in this country either. But there was a case in Louisiana involving Filipino teachers recently that is just that:
 http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Corporate-Gr ... t-Decision
 
 

Actually Ord, I'm a history major working also on a double minor in Poli-sci and Economics and I believe I have read Sinclair once upon a time. Do i think that it CAN'T come back, no. Humanity seems doomed to repeat their failures of history over and over again. the thing is is that i feel, and I state this as my opinion, that government, and more government is not the answer. Some government is needed, but when your beuracracy gets so bloated that the left hand doesnt know what the right hand is doing, then it has gone to far.