At-will means two things:

1) They can fire you with no notice and no reason at any time.
2) You can quit and walk out with no notice and no stated reason at any time.

On paper, that seems fair. However, it's tilted in the employer's favor because most of the time losing a job is much worse for the employee than it is for the employer.

I'm a salesperson and I am about to get this 5-6 figure comission. You dismiss me with no cause or a bogus one. I can still turn around and sue you for wrongful termination.

That's a little different. In that case your commission would be unpaid wages, and the DOL would be able to get involved.

Most of the time, though, their lawyers can beat up your lawyers.

Sure, they write the checks. But it's the lower classes that do the actual work. Which would be fine, if the lower classes shared in any success the company had.

"Hey, I just created $x that's going to make us a billion dollars!"
"Attaboy!"

That's it. The rich get richer off the hard work of other people.

I don't know about you, but I couldn't make ends meet for long on unemployment payments. They can also make your life difficult by fighting the claim and making shit up out of whole cloth at the hearing.

That works for European employers, it's much harder to fire someone in general than it is in the USA.

When a manager finds out someone is leaving, one of the following happens:

1) They're fired on the spot and escorted from the building;
2) The manager tries to guilt them into staying;
3) A pathetic counter-offer is made (nevermind that the reasons for leaving may not have anything to do with compensation);
4) A significant counter-offer is made (usually intended to keep the worker there just long enough to hire a replacement).

Occasionally what you describe happens. It's rare in my experience. Look at it from the employer's point of view; to this point in the employee's time there, they have been able to do pretty much whatever they want w/r/t the worker. No binding job descriptions, arbitrary re-assignment, (for exempt employees) forcing them to work 60, 70, 80 hour weeks with no extra pay, making them do the work of three people for a single salary, etc etc etc. The playing field is heavily tilted in their favor. So, it comes as a shock and an insult when the employee exercises the one right that US workers really have: They can quit. How DARE they! Don't they know that the company will only make 6 bazillion dollars instead of 6.5 if they leave? WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE SHAREHOLDERS!

The list is endless. Most people are stupid, lack self control and any kind of prudence so we implement controls which address the lowest common denominator, occasionally allowing some people to jump through hoops to obtain slightly more access to something, but often with another set of draconian controls applied.

FTFY.

2000 wasn't about voter fraud, it was about terrible ballots and the closeness of Florida's result. SCOTUS put him in office. Actual voter fraud (where you're ineligible to vote and vote anyway) is what is the rounding error.

Oh, so now since I don't believe in libertarianism/objectivism/whatever, I'm part of the problem? Don't tell me what to think.

They can all jump into a volcano, as far as I'm concerned.

Educate me, then. And try to keep Rand out of it.

I know that libertarians talk a good game, but what they really want is to be able to make decisions for themselves regardless of the consequences to others. That social Darwinism is the key to salvation, That the invisible hand of the free market will solve all the world's ills.

They're either hopelessly naive or they've got an agenda to push, and that agenda is most likely empowering businesses to do whatever the fuck they want so long as they make money.

First, check your links. That's a 404.

Second, while libertarians froth at the mouth over individual rights, they fail to mention how the "individual right" most often defended is the one that puts CEOs in corner offices making 350 times what their workers make. The only "individual right" they really care about is the right to exploit others for personal gain.

Well, fortunately we have strong voter id laws on the books that are intended to make it harder for Democrats to vote

FTFY.

Voter fraud is a rounding error. You should try finding a more compelling bogeyman.

When private enterprise with a profit motive aren't the ones establishing safety levels at nuclear power plants, then I'll consider it viable. So long as "less safety = more profit" it's a non-starter for me.

"It's become perhaps the biggest problem for the police and the security service authorities in dealing with the threats from terrorism," he explained.

Tough shit. Nobody said it would be easy.