Spoken like a true conservative hocking. You're right in some ways. The market (it isn't free and I won't get into that but rest assured it'd make you sigh at my naivete) creates an economic circumstance in which my labour and most eveyrone elses is needed to manufacture and produce the wealth for that corporation, or that tycoon, or tat king, or whoever else is holding the biggest share of control.
But you seem to think that somehow democracy and freedom spring from nowhere. And if the market is good and brilliant all by its self then why has an untamed market been responsible for the utter lack of freedom that sent the pilgrims fleeing to North America? Yes the market gives me a job, but before laws made by government to regulate that labour people like you and me were working 12 to 14 hour days or more for significantly less. We were dying on the job because the conditions were poor. And we had no rights anyway because the King was the only government anyone needed.
It always surprises me when I hear an american complaining about the very thing that makes his country special. Your constitution makes your nation the greatest on the earth. My country couldn't exist without yours but it seems like so many of your countrymen hate the very thing that makes them distinctive. Freedom doesn't sprout out of unregulated economics. Government is the only guarentee that the average un-wealthy man has at a good life. And besides that for all that you allege the government is corrupt the private sector is just as corrupt. By its nature corporations are compelled to create wealth above all else including the welfare of its consumers and employees. Thats why the industrial revolution was ugly for the workers.
This blind faith in the market is so perverse because it is the inverse of the trends of democratic freedom. It was Moussolini that connected corporatism with fascism. But you aren't going to listen to that so we hsould probably get back on topic.
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