This is one of the things that is wrong with America and the capitalist economic organization. The individual cannot negotiate effectively with large corporate entities, and frequently the individual loses everything. After devoting ones life to developing a particular skill, that skill is no longer necessary because the work has been outsourced and you are just out of luck. Even though you devoted your life to the career and the corporate employer, they are only governed by "at will hire laws" and have no responsibility to you at all. You are out of work, with no useful skills, and no one in USA America cares whether you are dead or alive. This is why there are 70,000 homeless living right on the sidewalks of Los Angeles. This is why 75% of the single family homes in Detroit are abandoned or demolished. Capitalism destroys life. Nobody cares.
The unfortunate thing is that this economic environment we live in was designed to create the exact personal conflicts that we find so traumatic. Our free market economy is designed so that you work most all your waking hours just to stay alive and have no time for anything else. How is it that we live in a time when we have more personal wealth than any other time in human history and yet we all work longer hours than any other time in human history (except for the slaves in the Roman salt mines)? Is this an accident? I think not.
copyright (c) 2017
William Schaeffer
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