Unfortunately, their American dream is more often than not the American nightmare. It does not provide living wages for their families to live on. Their blood, sweat and tears build the companies. The leaders attempt to evade paying the workers their fair share by moving to other states where they can pay less money. This is exactly what Universal Manufacturing does by moving its operations to Mississippi. It goes there to pay less money and avoid the unionization that is the only weapon that the workers have in their struggle to organize and get more money and better working conditions. Mega corporations in the time of globalization do exactly the same thing, but just on a much greater scale in the time of NAFTA when selling out to lowest bidder and making people into commodities that can be sold over international borders has been raised to a high art. Part 3

Income disparities will almost always exist. While things might not be ideal with the work environments created by small businesses, it is much worse for workers in the age of NAFTA where it is so easy to outsource jobs. The corporations involved in this outsourcing do not pay taxes in the nations that they do their manufacturing or...

So, essentially, they live parasitically off of the good will, people and infrastructure of the countries that host their businesses. So often, one hears of how host governments in countries or states of the United States giving huge tax benefits and giveaways to these corporations to lure them into the area in the hopes that these companies will provide jobs. The paltry few jobs that they bring in do not pay enough and are simply not enough in number. Just as Occupy Wall Street is questioning government giveaways to banks and investment houses, we must question the liberal giveaways of national sovereignty by state entities to corporations when countries sign away their workers' rights in cross border agreements that only impoverish the workers by reducing everyone and everything to a financial level. Besides providing a critique of the fiduciary inequities of the system, the shame and alienation of workers from their jobs is even worse and embitters the lives of working men and women whose only crime is asking for enough money to live on.
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