That's only indirectly true. Manufacturing jobs moved because, holy shit, workers in the United States wanted decent pay and safe working conditions. But why go to all that expense when you can move the manufacturing to some third world shithole and pay your workers a dollar a day? If paying your workers a decent living wages is seen as a negative, then I very much question your education. People matter. More so than the money you can potentially drag in.
Those labor conflicts (starting in the late 19th century and into the mid-20th) came about because of the horrible pay, working conditions, and outright bastardry perpetrated by business moguls. The Pullman strikes, for instance, because Pullman made all his workers live in apartments he owned and buy food and other necessities from company stores. And paid them only in company scrip. Workers are people too. They deserve every chance at happiness, wealth, and success that the bastards at the top do. Even if they won't ever be fabulously wealthy, paying them a decent living wage, giving them safe working conditions and helping them when they retire or need medical assistance is the best way to ensure you have a healthy, happy, and productive workforce. Even if it cuts into the bottom line.
Strong corporations are good for one thing: the corporations. I agree that we need businesses, jobs, what have you in this country. But not at the cost of our decency, our morals, and our humanity.
What you have been taught is inherently selfish. The few profit from the toil of the many. You are very fortunate to have someone who will pay for everything you want and need. Pretty much all of the rest of us don't have that luxury.
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Those labor conflicts (starting in the late 19th century and into the mid-20th) came about because of the horrible pay, working conditions, and outright bastardry perpetrated by business moguls. The Pullman strikes, for instance, because Pullman made all his workers live in apartments he owned and buy food and other necessities from company stores. And paid them only in company scrip. Workers are people too. They deserve every chance at happiness, wealth, and success that the bastards at the top do. Even if they won't ever be fabulously wealthy, paying them a decent living wage, giving them safe working conditions and helping them when they retire or need medical assistance is the best way to ensure you have a healthy, happy, and productive workforce. Even if it cuts into the bottom line.
Strong corporations are good for one thing: the corporations. I agree that we need businesses, jobs, what have you in this country. But not at the cost of our decency, our morals, and our humanity.
What you have been taught is inherently selfish. The few profit from the toil of the many. You are very fortunate to have someone who will pay for everything you want and need. Pretty much all of the rest of us don't have that luxury.