[zvorygin]

When have the corporations ever not had a short-termist "Fuck you, I got mine" mentality in America?

[alienthrowaway]

I'd say prior to Financialization, i.e. before the "greed is good" zeitgeist of the 1980s. When wages and salaries grew in tandem with increases in productivity.

[dmd]

Ever heard of Bell Labs?

[tombert]

Bell Labs was cool, but it was more or less just a part of AT&T wasn't it? The company that spent about a century with a near-monopoly on all telecommunications at great expense to basically everyone in America, and even eventually led to them being broken up into a few dozen separate companies.