If you are right, then the position of any rational person should be to limit the power of ANY large institution.

I see a lot of bitching about corporate power around here. Not so much the far greater power of a government that has vastly increased its size and power over our lives in my lifetime, and is looking to go much further.

I believe that a free market system naturally limits the power of the private sector - assuming that the players don't have access to government power to obtain favors, receive exclusive operating privileges, or cripple their competition. "Leave us alone - except when we need your guns to keep our monopolies" is not "laissez faire." If you look at the history of the Gilded Age, it was one enormous "circle jerk" between the big companies and government at all levels.

A government that is heavily limited in its powers by constitution or other means is far less corruptible than one that has the legitimate power to do almost anything at all.

As for the rest:

The conflict is between those who want their labor directed towards solving human problems and those who wish to direct and exploit the labor of others for the aggrandizement of their careers.

That's kind of a pantload. For most of my life, I didn't go to work to "solve human problems," and I suspect neither does 90 percent of the human race. They go to do a job, earn a living, and support their families and dreams. With luck, it's a job they like, and with even more luck, it's a job where they can see a difference made in their neighborhood.

A lot of the people who have actually made the world a better place to live made a lot of money doing it, money freely given for what they do. If they make too much, a certain political point of view sees this as evil.

"Workers vs. bosses?" I think you're the one stuck in the 19th century. The "us versus them" examples you use are old ones. They're designed to keep people focused on superficial characteristics, and not think about underlying issues and ideologies.