>this responsibility really should lie with everyone
some responsibility should lie with the public, but to capture the diversity of benefits and needs of every single employee with a centralised program is impossible, and it would also be an unprecedented amount of power transferred to the federal government.
Not everyone requires the same benefits or same training and this is why corporations do need to have some responsibility, decentralisation of benefits is necessary.
This sort of technocratic dream of taking all responsibility away from business which then functions in pure form while all social responsibility is transferred to bureaucrats who hand out benefits (but also can cut them at any point), is volatile and essentially has one single point of failure.
Not to mention it completely ignores the messy reality that we can't simply "tax the billionaires and upper middle class" because of the complications of real world politics.
The US is already way too dependent on this logic of having an all powerful government bail out citizens and unaccountable business. It was one of the lessons of the financial crisis and right now during the pandemic it is failing again. Yes, the government can write trillion dollar checks, but it does nothing to combat the mass unemployment and dysfunction that is the result of having no responsibility or organisational capacity within firms, who ought to be the first line of defense.
some responsibility should lie with the public, but to capture the diversity of benefits and needs of every single employee with a centralised program is impossible, and it would also be an unprecedented amount of power transferred to the federal government.
Not everyone requires the same benefits or same training and this is why corporations do need to have some responsibility, decentralisation of benefits is necessary.
This sort of technocratic dream of taking all responsibility away from business which then functions in pure form while all social responsibility is transferred to bureaucrats who hand out benefits (but also can cut them at any point), is volatile and essentially has one single point of failure.
Not to mention it completely ignores the messy reality that we can't simply "tax the billionaires and upper middle class" because of the complications of real world politics.
The US is already way too dependent on this logic of having an all powerful government bail out citizens and unaccountable business. It was one of the lessons of the financial crisis and right now during the pandemic it is failing again. Yes, the government can write trillion dollar checks, but it does nothing to combat the mass unemployment and dysfunction that is the result of having no responsibility or organisational capacity within firms, who ought to be the first line of defense.