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by pdonis 664 days ago
> corporations as we know them did not exist.

Yes, they did. Corporations existed in the British Empire in the 1600s. The Founders were quite familiar with the concept.

> the type of employment we have now and that most people experience did not exist in the 1800s.

This is simply false as a historical claim. If anything, workers had less leverage relative to corporate employers in the 1800s than they have now.