Mr Khan said:
Given the pace of the world economy, you can't just say "oh, they fucked up, it's their problem." How the hell could you expect, say, a US Steel worker who signed on in 1950 when he was 20, and was fired when the industry went belly-up in this country in 1980 at age 50, too early to retire, too late to retrain, and so "oh well, you should have been clairvoyant enough to see this coming 30 years ago." Now in this case, it's hard to blame companies that tried their best and failed, but it's much easier to blame companies that just leave behind workers to line their own pockets. |
Well that's why I said the free retraining, but it's not the function of companies to provide for that.
As I said, I believe the problem is unfairly low wages in the rest of the world, not corporate greed.
Corporate social responsibility doesn't exist and it's inefficient FOR it to exist. Minimum living standards and ensuring everyone is educated enough and well enough to be able to work are best taken on by the government here. I'm a pragmatist and expecting companies to, for example, care about the environment is stupid.