True enough things are always changing however increasingly there is no opportunity for redeployment because employment opportunities simply vanish from the local community to somewhere distant that is impossibly cheap. To my way of thinking 'smart' people also have a symbiotic responsibility of looking after others rather than exploiting and abandoning them. Perhaps someone can explain to me as a foreigner the subtlety of why Americans readily jettison their fellows at the least sign of personal financial disadvantage. Is life really so mercenary that slash and burn industry can be the only way? The global village ought to be raising people up not casting them off and trading on the lowest common denominator. Unions could be active in helping the poor get a better deal and in doing preserve their own members opportunities but perhaps at a lesser more realistic income level. complex subject....
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