Great take and on point as ever. The problem I always end up with in this conversation is just how little corporations, CEOs, and Boards have changed over the last 100 years despite the alleged changes that were made to reel in the likes of robber barons. The same companies as built company towns and fire bombed striking workers still exist today, their investors of the time still pulling revenue and the successive generations of executives learning only how not to get caught like those prior.

We live in the same era of exploitation and degradation as we have since the idea of the West as a political sphere of influence was first penned. The same people who allowed literal Nazis into some of highest offices of government and academia across the entirety of the post-WW2 world are those who backed up coal operators at Blair Mountain and turned a blind eye to the Daughters of the Confederacy.