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It ignores the ability for workers to seek recourse for their problems. If you have lovable corporations whose leaders feel great empathy for their workers, those workers problems could be taken care of by those corporations absent government involvement. In fact, most laissez-faire advocates make this argument. However, currently and historically, no such lovable corporation has ever existed and, instead all corporations are primarily motivated by greed. It is much more cost-effective to ignore workers' problems and pay minimal wages, demand high quantities of hours, and maintain poor work conditions. It has taken direct government intervention in every single country where industry exists in order to protect and expand workers' rights.

In the specific case of the United States, during the Gilded Age, when laissez-faire was the dominant government policy, workers' rights were systematically denied. More often than not, the state and federal legal systems were used to support the will of industrialists and capitalists over workers and laborers. Unions were generally illegal and most laborers were unable to have parity when bargaining for positions.

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