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Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr
Don't know how it is in other countries, but I think the USA is like everyone else in allowing powerful business to direct government. When you think about it, the Civil War was about the wealthy not wanting to change the way they treated labor. 9/11 was due considerably to the FAA cow-towing to the airline industry's wish for less security. You can thank congress handcuffing the FDA for the opioid crisis. The system is geared to allow corporate America to get what they want at the expense of the individual citizen.
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We are not perfect over here, but we do tend to side with private citizens on things like privacy, consumer and labor law.
In the US things like universal maternity leave has not even been adopted yet.