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The power a government has over you, and the power your employer has over you, are totally different.
The government is legally authorized to separate you from your possessions, your freedom, and even your life in extremis. Your boss can't do any of that and if they try the government should stop them.
Some people believe democracy is what prevents the government from punishing you capriciously, or allowing corporations to just do whatever they want to you. So they are willing to die to defend it.
I would say traditional liberal ideals are closer to what they'd want to defend than democracy itself, and I don't 100% agree in either case, but I can see the point of view.
If you think your boss can just murder you I'm not sure what to tell you.
Take out a gun and shoot you on the factory floor, probably not. But deliberately and systematically violate safety regulations with impunity, expose workers to materials known to cause health issues and cover it up for decades, or just threaten you with loss of the income you need to survive? Employers do that all over the country, on a daily basis.
This is true. On the other hand, it is the government's job to uncover and persecute this. Obviously it could do a better job of it, but OSHA and the EPA actually do police employers for exactly these sorts of violations.
Yeah if departments like OSHA and the EPA didn't enforce safety laws and shit there would be a lot more industrial death videos on LiveLeak than there is now
not feasible when those same bosses lobby to keep those institutions toothless
I mean there's a history of employers actually killing employees for unionizing. It's not a secret.
Exactly.
My boss is slowly killing me. He claims 8 hours of my life every day, except weekends, and who knows how many I have left.
I don't think most people would consider this slowly killing you, except in the most metaphorical sense.
I will break far before I'm allowed to retire