Corporate power and abuse is a recurring idea. Money results in power, and power often results in abuse. In America, this concept is not new. At the turn of the century, monopolies and trusts controlled government at all levels and abused that power by dictating all laws and policies relative to conducting business. Sweatshops abounded, in which poor children and adults labored in horrible conditions for non-livable wages. Anti-trust and labor laws steadily corrected these abuses and served to reduce corporate power