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Originally Posted by BFT3K
I would love to see a psychological study of minds, based upon a cross-section of people who have seen this series in its entirety.
I would bet conservatives and liberals will spin this series very differently, without any prompting. I guess it's just human nature.
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It's a mixed-emotions kind of thing to me.
In one hand...these guys and their ruthlessness really did "build" this country.
We might be a third world country if not for them...I don't know.
On the other hand, people were dying at work. They showed the numbers of people injured and killed while at their workplace, and it was like looking at automobile injury and death numbers in 2013.
And people living in abject poverty like that was reprehensible.
It's easy to see why unions were a necessity when they finally came about.
My personal opinion is that things were too far swung over that way. And then when the govt. finally stepped in and unions were legalized, I believe they found that "sweet spot" where the balance was correct and everyone made money and the country moved forward.
These days, it seems to me that it may have gone a little too far and went out of that "sweet spot".
That's kind of a natural progression though. And eventually it will swing back a bit and hit that spot again for a decade or so (until it goes too far the other way and the process repeats)