All forms of government need an economy.

The economy is a vital aspect of the social within any form of governmental structure. An economy is also needed in a democratic structure of government. However, there is a great difference in the economies of autocracies and those of democracies. A democratic form of government encourages competition in the economy because the People at the Bottom constitute the essence of the democratic form. Everyone at the Bottom is free and equal in his/her striving for economic security. Hence, everyone is free and equal to compete with each other. The progress of technology contributed to the nature of competition and to the amount of accumulation of profits. This new technology and its 'enlargement' within the context of factories, businesses, etc. made possible a new class of 'worker'; s/he was called an 'employee'. Employers, with sufficient capital, continued to expand and employees continued to aid that expansion in exchange for a 'living wage'. Competition, at this stage, becomes less possible, but, nevertheless, still remained open to new technological advances and the establishment of small businesses within the economy. As businesses grew larger, the same 'freedom and equality' applied to the employer and the employee relationship. Of course, this required some 'control' by government to avoid abuses of the relationship. Hence, 'minimum wage scales', 'healthy' and 'safe' work conditions, etc. But, the rapid growth of the corporate structure into 'economic walruses' and the Constitutional protection afforded it, as a 'person', which is actually recognized by law as a legal fiction, completely quashed any possibility of competition by real persons. That, in and of itself, may be fair, so long as the relationship is monitored and regulated by law. So, where are the laws prohibiting the ascendancy of the 1%? Hey, we're protecting a fiction at the expense of a real human being. Our 'Alice in Wonderland' government needs to wake up. Life begins with 'needing to work' and now life is 'having more money than the Other'. Well, that's not too bad; until government invented "legal fictions".