Remember that scene in The Shawshank Redemption where it establishes that the corrupt warden was ruining local businesses because he had no labor overhead costs when deploying prisoners all over town to do project work? And then the local businesses started bribing him to stay away from their livelihoods so that they wouldn’t go bankrupt?
Same as modern times: except, it’s 10,000 times larger in scale now, and the smaller businesses can no longer afford the bribes. But that’s okay, because the government stepped in to pay instead.
Remember that scene in The Shawshank Redemption where it establishes that the corrupt warden was ruining local businesses because he had no labor overhead costs when deploying prisoners all over town to do project work? And then the local businesses started bribing him to stay away from their livelihoods so that they wouldn’t go bankrupt?
Same as modern times: except, it’s 10,000 times larger in scale now, and the smaller businesses can no longer afford the bribes. But that’s okay, because the government stepped in to pay instead.