At first when health care reform was being proposed in the US, I couldn’t understand why employers were so dead-set against it as it would save them hundreds of billions of dollars a year.

Didn’t take me long to figure it out. They oppose it because having health care linked to employment basically makes employees into indentured servants – that is if they want health care for themselves and their families.

It’s a way to keep wages low and just as much it’s about power. If you think companies only care about profit, that is not correct. The only thing more corrupting than money is power, and CEOs, middle managers and all of those corporate execs with their tiny fiefdoms love to hold that power over those they perceive to be worth less than they are – even if it leads to somewhat less profit over the long term. If you don’t believe me, it probably only means that you’ve never worked in a public or private corporation in your life.

People have long been worried about the tyranny of government, but it turns out for the last 50 years they’ve been looking in the wrong direction – corporate tyranny is far more prevalent and is getting worse.

In 100 years, it probably won’t matter much as climate change, while it might not lead to global human extinction, is going to so shake up the order of everything that the world then will not be recognizable to us now.

Another thing that people refuse to believe, but is absolutely inevitable.