I see the temporarily embarrassed aristocrats are out in force again.
I'll put it as simply as I can: the NLRB and FTC are there to prevent force and fraud, same as every other liberal institution. You just don't like it because you want your particular brand of coercion to be treated as a right.
The NLRB protects workers' freedom of association from capital's long-standing, multigenerational attempts to cancel[0] that freedom. The FTC protects the market from privatized attempts to impose price floors or ceilings. Large businesses wield power commensurate with governments and should be regulated proportionally to their ability to do government things.
Big business has spent over 50 years insulating themselves from market forces through regulatory capture, selective deregulation, and the complete dismantling of antitrust. Hiding your coercion behind the guise of helping the American consumer is unhelpful, because those consumers are also workers. You are beating up kids for lunch money with the promise that you might give some of it back.
I'll put it as simply as I can: the NLRB and FTC are there to prevent force and fraud, same as every other liberal institution. You just don't like it because you want your particular brand of coercion to be treated as a right.
The NLRB protects workers' freedom of association from capital's long-standing, multigenerational attempts to cancel[0] that freedom. The FTC protects the market from privatized attempts to impose price floors or ceilings. Large businesses wield power commensurate with governments and should be regulated proportionally to their ability to do government things.
Big business has spent over 50 years insulating themselves from market forces through regulatory capture, selective deregulation, and the complete dismantling of antitrust. Hiding your coercion behind the guise of helping the American consumer is unhelpful, because those consumers are also workers. You are beating up kids for lunch money with the promise that you might give some of it back.
[0] Cancel as in Twitter.