[thewildginger]

Also benefits like healthcare which was mentioned. The squeeze of mandating private corporations as healthcare insurance providers and being so deeply involved in a matter so private means it is a field ripe for customer/client exploitation.

The Lords of the land that are large business owners and corporations have had an economic shift, where the laborers have a tiny edge compared to the recent past in the form of less laborers and more wage competition, and they're not even organized in the US! The fact that this alone can disrupt the ecosystem of capital so drastically that a labor secretary became a bartender and the largest unionized workplaces have to give record concessions to the labor unions speaks to this systems glaring flaws.

[DonsDiscountGas]

Providing healthcare would essentially be a big increase in pay, so chalk that up to #1. Although I would much rather we have universal healthcare through the government.