Your 'opinion' is just that ... and completely false. You need to do some studying ...
To start, I would suggest you review Thomas Jefferson's commentary about democracy being a collage of "competing self interests". Then, follow that up with Hernado De Soto's book, "The Mystery of Capital" .... that will get you started in the right direction.
De Soto's book, according to the blurbs on Amazon, centers around the thesis that successful countries are that way largely due to the rule of law, and in particular financial law. Property rights, contract law, banking rules, etc, must be fair and also honestly enforced, or at least reasonably so. Quite clearly, any country is going to be better off with an honest and competently enforced set of financial rules. And I agree completely. It is exactly due to government intervention in the economy by way of setting rules and standards that best benefit the majority, rather than a privileged few, that we have arrived at the middle class societies seen today in the more advanced countries. In fact, there has never been an example of a successful nation that embraced pure capitalism, without the moderating effects of social legislation. The America you see today is the product of FDR's new deal, and Johnson's great society legislation of the '60s.
As for Jefferson, I have read some of his stuff, and it is interesting from an historical perspective. With economics though, I prefer to read those that are not two centuries out of date. I suspect that many conservatives like to refer back to those times because they feel the world is too complex and difficult today, and so yearn for simpler times. Alas, that is not possible. We are stuck with the world we have today, one in which many significant changes have occurred to society over the years. If you would like to read some more contemporary work in this field, by some award winning and highly regarded economists, I could recommend some to you.
As for my opinion, the opening line contained a small bit of hyperbole, but after that, fact reigned supreme. Indeed it is one of the salient facts of economic life today that capital has truly sprouted wings and taken off. Many of today's new ventures are capital intensive, but not all that labour intensive. There are much less people needed to man the work stations at Google, than there were at the first Ford factory. Those with capital have much more advantage and ability to obtain even more. Money flashes around the globe in the blink of an eye, finding profit in perhaps currency speculation in Tokyo, then whipping over to a corrupt hotel deal in Cambodia, finally sheltering for a bit in the Cayman Islands.
Meanwhile, the American worker is still here, and going no where. There has been a long term depression in wages caused by increasing automation and competition with low wage workers in the newly industrializing third world. This effect is further taken advantage of by employers such as yourself, who hope to squeeze a million dollars labour into a one dollar pay check, increasing the gap between the value of labour and accumulated capital.
And by and large, folks like you are being successful. The middle class is being squeezed into the lower class, as competition for jobs increases, and wages and working conditions decline. Wealth for a very small minority is rocketing upwards, while it is stagnant or dropping for the majority.
You can read all about it if you don't believe me. You won't find it in Jefferson though. You'll need an update.
