Here's the map forced-birth American Taliban don't want you to see...

[JDPriestly]

54. Brilliant.

They want to make government irrelevant so that companies can do whatever they want to their employees.

Remember, our employment, our work culture is patterned after the master/servant relationship of feudalism or if you will, slavery itself. The employee is supposed to be loyal and subservient to the employer, in every way obey the employer, never contribute his own ideas or argue with the employer, get to work on the employer's schedule and never complain. For that the employee gets a wage that in recent years hasn't risen to match gains in skills or the employer's profits, gets to be fired at the employer's will or caprice, has no union to represent him in negotiating working conditions in wages, dares not ask for a raise or promotion (probably not given very often) and gets no paid sick leave, maternity leave, or paid vacation.

What a deal! Of course, back in the days of slavery or feudalism, the master provided the slave or serf miserable housing and maybe food. For many of our minimum-wage workers, that's about all they can afford on their paychecks.