I keep a blogroll of news links about layoffs on the front page of this site. Those of you who read it through the RSS feed never see that. I really wish that this country had found some way to turn the anti-trust trends of the late 19th and early 20th centuries into a cultural tradition. There are few things I hate more than watching competing companies merge. It’s always bad for the workers involved. The “efficiencies” that are gained are really just a way to redistribute more wealth from workers to owners.

We’ve been seeing towns and regions devasted by this kind of thing for so long that people have grown used to it, at least when it’s not happening to them. But every time I read about some company ceasing production in the town where they were founded or have been in business for 80-150 years, it makes me literally a little sick in my stomach.

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