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potato_hamster said:
VGPolyglot said:

Well, we were closer to that until the Great Depression where the free market economy collapsed and workers striked in droves, forcing the corporations and government into having better working conditions. Of course, we'll never get pure free-market capitalism because it's not in the corporations best interests to do so, as they want to create certain regulations that will benefit themselves.

And most all of those who were extremely wealthy before the great depression remained extremely wealthy afterwards. In fact many of them became even more wealth as they took advantage of those who were truly desperate. Not sure what point you're trying to make here. There doesn't appear to be one at all.

My point was, they had to give concessions in order to keep their wealth, because if they didn't they could had been overthrown.