It offers a relationship with god. Basically what the other person says is right.
Business people in intense competition with each other to produce a better, less expensive product or service are and always has been good for the economy of any country. When businesses are allowed to become too big to fail, to hire trained gunslingers in the form of expensive lobbyists and contribute heavily to the campaigns of candidates who provide those businesses favors, privileges, subsidies, tax cuts, etc., they cease to be good for the economy of our country. Business owners hate unions because it gets in the way of them making money. The ego maniacal business owner values profit above treating employees with dignity or as a human being at all. Forcing an employee to skip lunch is the difference between earning $100 to $0.00. Unions are hated because they force business owners to do the right thing. Sometimes what is right keeps them from maximizing their profits. There are labor laws, however can be ignored when greed is involved. Most employers get away with it as opposed to employers who have employees with unions.
Falling prices. Farmers were in dire economic straits because prices for agricultural products such as cotton and wheat had significantly dropped, while consumer prices for goods and services continued to rise. Debt and foreclosure. Working conditions were terible there wasnt no safety and child laboring was occurring.
So few cases against monopolies and trust, also called The Sherman Act, were won for the fed during the Gilded Age (1870-1900) because it was loosely formulated and failed to define such critical terms as "trust", "combination", "conspiracy" and "monopoly". Despite substantial fees and jail expeditions for those who decided to form such combinations, the Act was dismantled five years later. In other words, monopolies and trusts were encouraged by the federal courts.
