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There are a lot of responses here discussing corporations vs. the government vs. the workers when it comes to social responsibility, but ignoring the fact that
by AussieWog93 5y ago
There are a lot of responses here discussing corporations vs. the government vs. the workers when it comes to social responsibility, but ignoring the fact that _everyone_ has become less socially responsible over the last 40 years.
People in general just aren't community or socially minded in the way they used to be[1], and the bosses of companies or leaders of government are all people too.
[1] To be specific, people are still charitable, but we don't have the same culture/institutions where everyone gives and takes in the same way we used to.
Things like working bees, community sport, or even just general behaviours like helping out friends/family/neighbours are all getting rarer by the day.
- mcguire 5y agoTrue, to an extent, although I suspect in large part due to increased mobility---family members used to live in the same general area.
- AussieWog93 5y agoI think it's more cultural than geographical. Just anecdata, but most of the positive, restore-your-faith, "community" experiences in my personal life have come from non-Anglo migrants, as well as people from rural areas and also certain states (QLD, and to a lesser extent SA). Long story short, I think it's simply a cultural shift more than an adaptation to any lifestyle changes.
- nonameiguess 5y agoYep. I have no idea what it is, but it's clear there is a broader issue here than any reductive analysis will acknowledge. Same thing with NAFTA. It wasn't a single trade deal. The exact same changes happened with my dad's employer, but he was a plumber for Los Angeles County. They weren't and can't be offshored and they aren't owned by corporate raiders or soulless shareholders, yet exactly what happened to rust belt manufacturing companies happened to government-employed blue collar laborers in California.
- Apocryphon 5y agoFinancialization?