You may be interested to read this article; I'm not sure one can make the argument that unionization was responsible for standard of living.
That's a tangent, though: I agree with your main point and think that there are always a lot of problems when the group that produces is the same as the group that regulates.
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on 2008-01-16 07:19 am (UTC)That's a tangent, though: I agree with your main point and think that there are always a lot of problems when the group that produces is the same as the group that regulates.