"Radicalifornia" Endnotes

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8. Ronald Reagan began the era of not enforcing the anti-trust laws.

You may remember that he busted the air traffic controllers union by firing all of them and bringing in military air traffic controllers. From that time forward, we have seen corporate monopolists consolidating company after company. Buying up small and mid-sized manufacturing companies and shipping the jobs overseas for cheaper labor. What is behind all of this? It is the human vice of unfettered greed. Greed that can never be satisfied. Somewhere, the human virtue of contentment with a middle class life and working for the benefit of all got replaced with Ayn Rand's virtue of selfishness. The greedy want to privatize everything for maximum profit? It is greedy selfishness that is the problem. How many millions of $$$ does it take to be happy? $20M, $50M, $200M, $20B? $200B? What we're enabling is a few, very few pharoahs, while the rest of us drag stone blocks for pennies and nickels.