Voltaire would have laughed. Indians were the bad guys, and nobody wanted to be one. There's a new batch of cowboys and Indians today in the financial media. You can see this subtext when the stock market goes up, and the business pages trumpet it as good news. When wages go up, it's a warning sign of inflation.
Stockholders are the heroes of business.
Every day, we read the Wall Street Journal, not the Main Street Journal. We hear on the radio the movement of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, not the Dow Jones Wage Average. Wages are kept secret. Profits for shareholders are to be as high as possible. Employees are outsiders, who are disenfranchised.