Read some interesting comments while googling that platform. There's an argument that corporations needed a strong US manufacturing based, organized workers and a large middle class to fight Soviet communism but after the fall of the Soviet Union, those things became unnecessary for multi-national corporations and they abandoned them for larger profits and more power without them. That's an intriguing claim.

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