Does the law tend to favor employers or employees?

    “Whenever the legislature attempts to regulate the differences between masters and their workmen, its counsellors are always the masters.  When the regulation, therefore, is in favor of the workmen, it is always just and equitable; but it is sometimes otherwise when in favor of the masters.”

The Wealth of Nations

Can we trust the legislative process?

“The proposal of any new law or regulation of commerce which comes from this order [merchants and manufacturers], ought always to be listened to with great precaution, and ought never to be adopted till after having been long and carefully examined, not only with the most scrupulous, but with the most suspicious attention. It comes from an order of men, whose interest is never exactly the same with that of the public, who have generally an interest to deceive and even to oppress the public, and who accordingly have, upon many occasions, both deceived and oppressed it.”

                                                                                                      The Wealth of Nations