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Trust Issues: Captains of Industry

Topic Synopsis

Businessmen have always been the backbone of American society. As Hamilton said, “the prosperity of commerce,” your prosperity, “is the most useful and productive source of national wealth.” But now, you are under attack. The workers, stirred by malcontents like the “Wobblies” and the “American Federation of Labor,” are growing uneasy. You gave them jobs, livelihoods, a good day's work for a (at least, in your estimation) fair wage. You furthered economic development, contributed to national security and helped shape America, guiding it into a golden, gilded age. 

 

For your hard work, you have seen growth across the board. Whether you are in steel, oil or coal, your revenues are up and your expenses are down. The government has, after generous donations and some judicious prodding, caught on to the miracle of laissez-faire economic policy, allowing you to stoke the fires of American progress and ingenuity. Lady Liberty is pleased—but there is no satisfying some of those greedy, uncivilized laborers. They are forming unions and daring to strike, to walk off those perfectly good jobs that you all gave them. 

 

In order to counter these foolish rebellions and ensure the continuation of this golden gilded age, you have brought in new workers (who are then unfairly and unjustly demeaned as “scabs” by the ignorant masses), you have tried to appease, to discuss, to talk it out. But they still continue.

 

It is time for the gloves to come off. 

 

Because this is one half of a Joint Crisis Committee, you’ll be positioned against the “Gilded Age Farmers” (or Maladroit Malcontents) room. These… folk… will be doing everything they can to accomplish their destructive agenda and grind American progress (and the growth of your personal fortunes) to a screeching halt. You’ll need to come together to ensure that these farmers remain divided, conflicted, and inept, lest your entire operation be left to the mercy of the backward mob. Your America is a stable America, a free America, an America for innovators and you will need to use your superior business acumen to protect your country and company, built from nothing from the blood, sweat and tears of yourself and men like you. Will you be up for the task, or will you let the unwashed masses tarnish your legacy and send America into ruin?

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