The owners of the companies do almost whatever they want to do. Their options seem to be more flexible and more numerable than most people's options. The worst thing the owners do is take jobs away from people in America and give them to others. They're playing God. The corporates giveth, and the corporates taketh away. They do this to increase profits and lower the costs of the product for the consumers. Most ordinary Americans will easily buy a product that costs less without a large sacrifice in quality. However, there is a terrible downside to this, which is that these jobs disappear and won't come back unless there is a new type of business that creates jobs in America. This doesn't happen often. The New Economy brought this, but we all know these jobs will also go overseas sometime in the near future. All we are left with is the hope that some new inventions will keep creating new jobs at a pace as fast as the jobs going outside the U.S. What is worst in all of this is that the corporates are moving jobs from already poor countries with cheap labor to even poorer countries with still cheaper labor. Right now, Mexico is losing jobs to China. What about the Mexican cities that depend on the jobs created by Amercian companies? Can you guess what is going to happen to these cities? If you guessed that they are all going to go to sh*t, you guessed right! They are going to go to sh*t just like Flint, Michigan, just like Detroit, Michigan, just like Cleveland, Ohio, and just like any other city that went to sh*t because the owners of corporations decided that they wanted to have more money. Now, an important thing to notice in all of this is that when the owners are asked what they would tell the laid off workers and people who's city just went to sh*t what they should do about their helpless situation, the owners typical response is that the people should go out and do something. In other words, these poor people are on their own and nobody is going to help them--they need to fend for themselves. The owners of the corporations cannot help them.
What I have noticed about this is that the owners seem to feel as if they are the creators of the jobs and when people get these jobs they should be greatful. But when these jobs are taken away the people shouldn't be angry at the owners because they wouldn't have had jobs in the first place if the owners hadn't created them. I completely and totally disagree with the owners here. I believe that the people of the United States have created a system in which a small number of individuals can have the opportunity to make lots of money. The small amount of people that make lots of money can only do so because the people let them. These owners should be greatful of the system in America that allows them to make lots of money, and they should be greatful to the people of the U.S. that are dying right now for their right to make lots of money.
Corporate Responsibility:
I think what needs to be done is for an addition to the Constitution that outlines what the responsibilities of the corporations and the owners of the corporations should be. I think that the corporations should be held responsible and accountable for the economies of the cities they occupy. The owners should be held responsible and accountable for the quality and design of the product that is produced. If employees are resonsible and accountable for being good workers, the owners should be responsible and accountable for what it is that workers are producing. For example, the Ford Taurus sucks, but I'm sure that the workers have to put up with a lot of sh*t while assembling them. However, when the Taurus is no longer produced, are the employees still going to have a job? That's up to the owners to decide. Another example is LTV Steel in Cleveland, OH. Here, the workers have responsibly fulfilled all of their obligations to the owners but the owners havn't fulfilled their obligations to the workers. LTV has filed for bankruptcy because it cannot compete anymore because it failed to update its equipment and methods of operation. Soon, all of these workers are going to be out of jobs while the owners walk away with millions of dollars. This situation could have been prevented if the Constitution required that owners of failed companies lose all of their assets when their company falls apart. There should also be a ban on failed owners from accepting money or gifts from anyone, and anyone caught giving them shelter should be considered a criminal. If these owners are given the opportunity to have lots of things, the price they should have to pay is accountability. I would like to know what right now owners have to do in exchange for their opportunity to make lots of money.
-I'm not Communist, this is just good stuff to read
