If state offers pay, benefits and medical insurance that is equal or better than what is offered on the so-called “open market”, the state is undermining the ability of corporations to exploit workers.
That’s why the pay is miserly and the once decent benefit packages are being torn down. The state can only help corporate oligarchs in two ways: directly and indirectly. And the Carney administration is busy doing both.
For more on this, listen to Highlands Bunker Episode 233 “Fetters Burst Asunder” with Marxist scholar, Steve Paxton, on his newest book “How Capitalism Ends – History, Ideology and Progress.”
https://www.patreon.com/posts/80106534
