Please don’t. There’s nothing left to talk about.
okay, I will just summarize then - just off the top of my head some bullet points suggesting that corporations (as distinct from small businesses) have much more power than at any time since the gilded age. This is not a particularly daring claim.
1) real wage stagnation vs. corporate profit
2) declining powers of collective bargaining and the rise of right to work states and the subsequent shift in what that means - from empowering workers to protecting corporations. (Union membership/power way down over past forty years as economy has shifted and as precipitated in the 1980s with manufacturing heading overseas, etc.).
3) continued capture of government by big business, including of our political system - citizens untied, dark money, etc.
4) only since Obamacare have independent/freelance workers been guaranteed access under health insurance laws. Despite that work has changed, we remain tied to jobs who own our health insurance (this is not good for small and medium sized business owners either) - the more malign effects of this paradigm are most readily visualized in service, hospitality, and higher education, where part time workers (adjunct faculty) are commonly preferred in order for employers to avoid having to pay for benefits. And this is the trend - whereas once upon a time employer-provided health care was a response to bad work conditions, etc., and viewed as a form of corporate responsibility to its workers, later becoming a perk, it is now both carrot and stick. imho, not a cost-effective means of providing healthcare.
5) (really 1b and 3b) federal minimum wage lagging - many states helping to address this
I could go on, and we might debate point by point what is "good for America" and what not, but in general, while some of the gains you cite are real and meaningful, the past 100 years have not in fact been blowing toward the workers. Indeed, on some points those very gains are being eroded or threatened, sometimes because of overreach, as you say, but sometimes because it costs corporations money and they don't like it.
We are now 20 years into the 21st century. The first 80 years of the 1900s, sure, workers and employment rights had a good run. But that's long past. (I will say that we do seem to be again at a turning point. Trumpism encodes some of this dissatisfaction, though the solutions differ by party).
As for discrimination in the workplace, your complaints do not make much sense to me. It is one thing to be the subject of discrimination. It is quite another to demand the right to discriminate.
And it's moot: corporations in these matters will do exactly what serves them best. IMHO, and maybe we can agree on this, one of the most pathetic things about the United States right now is that people feel the need to look to the corporate sector to serve as some sort of moral arbiter, calling for boycotts when we feel betrayed by other elements in our society, etc., which is silly and merely symbolic and rarely has a meaningful effect. Corporations wield such immense power in our society - over politics - etc. - that I think we can be forgiven the impulse - but they cannot and should not be relied upon in this regard. Corporations will serve the needs of shareholders.
And now that I fulfilled my promise to return to the subject, we can be done if you wish.
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