Peter is right, you missed the point
Go back a couple of posts. In [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=145250|http://z.iwethey.org...?contentid=145250] you say, Corp USA does not make the laws and regulations of the country. Which prompted Peter's response that you are charmingly naive.
As long as politicians are easily influenced and voters are hard to mobilize, for all intents and purposes, corporate USA does make the laws and regulations of this country. And they have been doing it quite openly.
Not as openly, perhaps, as in the 1800's when you could simply purchase a Senate seat. But not very subtly for all that.
That said, the even more basic point is the one that Peter made in [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=144971|http://z.iwethey.org...?contentid=144971]. The mercantile philosophy, no matter how much you dislike aspects of it, made possible our way of life. The rise of corporations in the 1800's made mercantilism reach farther than it could ever have dreamed of doing before. Before that reorganization of our society, most people were born on the farm, slaved on the farm, and died on the farm. Starvation was a constant threat and an inevitable limit. (See Thomas Malthus.)
Our economic reorganization, together with improvements in technology (particularly food production technology) have allowed us to transcend what was considered possible and earn the average person a standard of living that would be the envy of past ages. However the way in which we did it is through a system that is utterly ruthless in pursuing internal priorities for efficiency. Compared to mass famine, admittedly, our current economic order is generousity itself. But our success has made us lose sight of such comparisons.
Complaining about it is fairly useless. It is with us, and it isn't fundamentally changing. (And if it did, you probably wouldn't like the change.)
You may not like or agree with that view. But it is not trivially wrong just because someone out there doesn't like the realities of how the current system works.
Cheers,
Ben
