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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Dale Baker who wrote (13231)2/24/2006 3:07:08 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 541835
 
Your interests coincide with a multinational, until the multinational finds a better workplace- then you are left with nothing but abandoned factories- so do the workers' interests and the corporation's interests overlap at times? Sure. But does the corporation "care" about the worker, will it pay for the damage it does to cities, and people? No.

Workers in America created whole towns for corporations- allowed them tax benefits, allowed them exemptions for pollution, lived with their pollution, created towns around said corporations- where Americans invested their life savings in houses that had value, because there was a corporation providing work there. Does the corporation pay the true costs of doing business when it takes off- and leaves a city that was built around it? No. The government starts paying the workers welfare and unemployment, and the workers lose money in their homes, and the corporation pays for none of that.

So may the people of Lesotho enjoy their textile boom- if the corporations find a better place to play, they will be gone, and they won't care a bit how badly they damage Lesotho when they leave. That's my problems with corporations- that they never pay the true costs of the harm they do.
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