It is an international shame, LD, one for which both corporations and consumers have to share the blame. I don't know what the answer is other than to publicize those companies that refuse to sign on to protocols that monitor and guarantee safer working conditions.
I watched a movie starring Brad Pit as a working class hit man. At the end he says, "America isn't a country. It's a business." Today, countries, governments and societies, even those considered democracies, are becoming transactional. It's the hallmark of state corporatism which fosters low-wage or slave-wage conditions as corporatist governments race each other to the bottom of the labour pool.
Killing Them Softly, I believe, is the movie to which you refer, Anon. I remember thinking when I saw it how apt Pitt's statement was. And the result of having such transactional governments are exactly as you describe, as we all learning, perhaps too late.
It is an international shame, LD, one for which both corporations and consumers have to share the blame. I don't know what the answer is other than to publicize those companies that refuse to sign on to protocols that monitor and guarantee safer working conditions.
ReplyDeleteI watched a movie starring Brad Pit as a working class hit man. At the end he says, "America isn't a country. It's a business." Today, countries, governments and societies, even those considered democracies, are becoming transactional. It's the hallmark of state corporatism which fosters low-wage or slave-wage conditions as corporatist governments race each other to the bottom of the labour pool.
ReplyDeleteKilling Them Softly, I believe, is the movie to which you refer, Anon. I remember thinking when I saw it how apt Pitt's statement was. And the result of having such transactional governments are exactly as you describe, as we all learning, perhaps too late.
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