Money is power. He conveniently leaves out the fact that unions are now just as powerful as any corporation. They use their clout to get special government treatment and vote people into power. When Obama was running for president, I got at least 10 calls a week from different local unions telling me to vote for him.<p>You can start your own company now and run it like a collective. If I sacrifice years of my life to start a company, I should get to decide how that company operates. We debate systems like healthcare because they are government run (or could be). Private companies shouldn't be completely organized and run by the government. We have the freedon to run a company in any way that we want. He is proposing taking away those freedoms.<p>If you look at history, terrible economies have led to terrible people like this getting into power. I still can't believe he's proposing a 94% tax rate over $200K or essentially capping max potential earnings. The world is a different place. If this were to ever happen, any intelligent person would start businesses elsewhere. The Internet has made this much easier.<p>The occupy movement isn't a good thing to get behind. It was a collection of hippy rich kids that wanted to smoke pot and get into drum circles. I never took it seriously and neither did 99% (yes this is intentional) of the population.<p>I might take him seriously if he started his own worker collective to prove that it's an actual working model. Talk is cheap.<p>Especially from someone that has been stuck in academia for the past 10+ years.