Yes, yes it is wrong, because they are doing that.  It just doesn't always succeed and is hard to do.

The differential market practically doesn't exist because there aren't enough people in it anymore.

Let me ask you a question, have you ever tried to buy American?

Shit ain't made in america anymore because the companies that DID make american made products have all basically gone out of buinsess...  If you were trying to buy american you'd know that as you see the brands go out of buisness and the buy american websites getting sparser and sparser in content.

It's not that companies "didn't want" to do it.  The market just isn't there. 

While people talk a good game, and are willing to hold up some signs.... nobody is willing to make any real sacrifices to achieve their goals.

If you want to pay your workers high wages and give them good plans you HAVE to be better then everyone.... and not in perceived value but in ACTUAL value.

Hell, look at the History of Ben and Jerry's... still leftwing in message, but their workplace treatment numbers have STEADILY declined because despite having some amazing icecream, people are less and less willing to pay for it... and no amount of new flavors is changing that.

That's why Ben had to sell out to a big corporation.  (Or was it jerry, i forget, one of them i believe left before.)

Your dead wrong when you say the oppurtunity is out there... because the corporations DID try and had been for a long time, then somewhere in the middle of the Clinton presidency these products just disapeared, and if you hadn't noticed, it was right about the same time people were talking about how big wal-mart was becoming and how wal-mart was killing mom and pop stores with it's low prices made from overseas products.

Except it wasn't Wal-mart killing them, or the american worker.

It was the American Consumer.  If the differential market was big enough to be serviced it would be.

If not by a major corporations, then by niche corporations, they used to exist in huge numbers producing american made good's in factories made by americans paid good wages, some still do, but very few.

They've all died off because that marketshare has died off.

I know, because I've actually tried to buy american before, and buy better valued products that let their workers live better lives.  It's something I picked up from my dad, who won't even use the self checkout lines at Grocery stores and home depots because as he rightfully says "They steal jobs from cashiers."

Hell 9 times out of 10 he won't even use an ATM, or an ATM card for thse reasons.

His kind if few and far between though, and we're the worse for it.

Corporations live only to service the market and it's customers and make sales.  Corporations, espiecally in this age where i can find out where nearly every product a company sells is made... are nothing more then a reflection on our society.

Corporations that are "evil", are largely evil because we WANT them to be.  All the advantage of exploited labor but with the added benfit of getting to be upset about it, because we can blame the evil corporations without taking any stock about what we actually buy and how it effects the ecosystem.

I mean how many people complain about evil corporations but use an Iphone that was made in a factory in China where people are forced to work 16 hour shifts (including children), and crammed into rooms on cots in the dozens to sleep acting practically like slaves?

Actions speak louder then words, and in reality... protests are nothing but words.

It is a lot easier in life to make bad choices and do worse, than it is to make good choices and succeed.  In this, there is also survivor bias, where an individual CEO, who happened to be around in a boom time, gets worshipped as some sort of genius, when it is they got lucky.  The reality is that they just got lucky, and survived events.  In short, incompetence can get punished, while competency has no guaranty of getting rewarded.  By the law of large numbers, competency should eventually pany out, but that would depend on the size of the window.

In the case of being wrong, if you are wrong and it works out, you got lucky.  But, it also has been noted, you don't measure the quality of a decision by the outcome, due to a large bit of probability involved in complex decisions.  Competent poker players will testify to this, as would anyone else taking risks who decides to remain true to employing a strategy.

In this also, you see in professional sports where a coach who does the same thing, and had been successful, will end up getting fired.  The same went with the General Manager in the likes of baseball.  Theo Epstein is now GM of the Cubs, because of the meltdown the Red Sox had.  Did Theo suddenly become less competent than before?  Did he do any worse than when the Red Sox Nation thing broke out?  Same guy, doubt any sign of any difference, just things didn't break right.  

We've addressed this issue of "they shouldn't have the kids" before, and that leads to one of three options:

1) Mandatory sterilization and/or abortions for those who are unfit to raise children

2) Leave them to understand the consequences of their actions (e.g. let the kids suffer from malnutrition et al)

3) Make the children wards of the state (damaging for the children psychologically and still costing the state money)

One of those cases where you have to pick your poison wisely

Except... I see plenty of Ceo's get praised her weren't around during economic boom times, often you see them praise for how graceful a fall companies have... and there are plenty of ceos who work for companies that do well who also aren't praised.

Plus, once a CEO "loses it" they get turned on pretty fast commentary wise.

In general when people talk about CEOs they seem to try and take everything into account when it comes to external factors.

Because their is a LOT of money on it.