Big Business bad - Small Business - and Unions - Good

It's all a bit of tired lefty propaganda. Those at the top don't so any work, they spend all day in their palatial office suites - or in swanky restaurants and clubs - worrying about the share price.
Jack Dolan (Kevin Costner) is a good guy; and he is as portrayed but to see his way of business as being the "right" way is naive. He employs 3 people but lives hand to mouth and sometimes can't make the payroll. I've been there and that all rang true. But to offer his working model as the way doesn't recognise the sheer size of the workforce. It's 30 million in the UK and probably 6 or 7 times that in the US. It's simply not possible for all those people to work in micro businesses. You have to have massive corporations and massive corporations have economic rules and forces at play and as the film sort of acknowledged, have to deal with fierce competition both in the markets where they operate and from other companies who will take them over if their share price shows weakness.
But my main objection was to the clear message about unions. When Walker (Ben Affleck) is setting-up the new business (funded just like mine was by a credit card) and is trying to get the start-up workforce in place it's clear they are going to go to the local union (chapter) for the personnel they need. The US and the UK's blue collar job market is where it is today - in the toilet (or crapper for US readers) - because of unionised opposition to modernisation and any kind of flexibility in employment practices
No one trying to buck the trend and re-establish any kind of manufacturing company in the US or UK would go anywhere near unionised labour.
An examination of the role of unions in the de-industrialisation of the western economies would have been appropriate.
The other aspect of lefty nonsense that could have done with some exposure is the correct balance between capital and labour. Employees have massive rights -the film asks about the legality of the lay-offs- while employers have only obligations. It would have been very interesting to examine what would happen to the Kevin Costner character were his small business to fold. In the UK his men would get all sorts of benefits, including full payment of any redundancy due to them, while he, held to be exercising control over the business, would get nothing. I am sure it is similar in the US. Now that would have made for an interesting film or sub-plot in this one.