Hi,
Look, it's nice to live in this fantasy world where government is always bad and private businessmen somehow incorruptible, but the truth is that
businessmen and investors, who are only concerned about turning bigger and bigger profits, would pay their workers nothing if they could get away
with it (what is wage-slavery but another form of (legitimate) slavery? A worker isn't free, after all, and just like a slave, you have to pay for the basics:
food, shelter, health, etc.)
This is why we need a stronger government: it is the sphere of democracy, in which (theoretically) all citizens can participate as equals,
unlike in a private business, where workers are subordinated to the interests of the investors/owners/bosses. In this case, the government
can step in to prevent the workers from abuse, if they are unable to do so themselves.
Hello Doug:
The National Labor Relations Board used to be quite competent in settling labor disputes but it has (30 years ago) been politicised. The NLRB should be reconstituted as a lifetime nine member elected board with an oversite appeal system (the US Supreme Court for instance can handle appeals). The NLRB decisions should be binding and enforced by the Justice Department, unless an appeal is submitted to the Supreme Court.
Theodore