Thank Goodness Big Business Is Here To Soak Up So Much of Our Antipathy

“Oh, yeah? Well, we don’t have confidence in you, either!” That’s the kind of spirited response one would like to see from big business as it digests the latest Gallup poll on Americans’ confidence in major institutions. Just 8 percent of respondents said they have “a great deal” of confidence in big business, with another 14 percent feeling “quite a lot” of confidence. Forty-four percent have merely “some” confidence in big business, while 31 percent have “very little” and 2 percent have “none.”