Federal laws largely consist of statutes protecting the interests of the middle and lower classes.
For example, the simplest and most common was the Hourly Wage Law, which stipulated that capitalists had to pay workers for their labor, with a minimum amount set for each hour.
The enforcement standards for the Hourly Wage Law varied from place to place, but its overall content basically centered on protecting workers' interests.
There were many laws and regulations of this kind, while there seemed to be very few specifically designed to protect capitalists.
By all rights, capitalists should have been the disadvantaged group in judicial interpretation. Yet, oddly enough, the workers receiving the most legal protection were the lower class, not the upper class.
In truth, it wasn't that there were no laws protecting capitalists. It was because the people who made the rules of the game were the capitalists themselves.
Only capitalists could defeat capitalists!
At least, that was how things were in the Federation! Hadn't Mr. Truman, the Federation's wartime president, found himself with few options in the face of the capitalists' staunch resistance?
He stared at Lin Qi. He knew that getting Lin Qi to act would come at a price, and he also knew that Lin Qi might use this opportunity to make himself richer and more frightening! But he believed—he had always believed—that he had ways to deal with Lin Qi.
Because he had plenty of Black Materials on Lin Qi. Just the arrangements for assassinating the emperor and the president were enough to make Lin Qi honor their agreement.
Lin Qi's expansion and growth were controllable.
But the collision and growth of those capitalists were not.
If he did not strike back now, they would see the Presidential Palace's weakness, even if they were currently restrained by