Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few

by Robert B. Reich

Few ideas have more profoundly poisoned the minds of more people than the notion of a “free market” existing somewhere in the universe, into which government “intrudes.”

The “free market” is a myth that prevents us from examining these rule changes and asking whom they serve.

“The question will arise, and arise in your day, though perhaps not fully in mine, ‘Which shall rule—wealth or man; which shall lead—money or intellect; who shall fill public stations—educated and patriotic free men, or the feudal serfs of corporate capital?’ ”