The Coronavirus

[Bob Butler 54]

(04-06-2020, 11:04 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Businesses with deep pockets will be able to have employees ready to go when those businesses restart operations.

This reminds me a bit of how things used to be when America was Great.  Working for the Bell System back in the day, my father used to be expected to give a bit extra in a storm, but the company would give loyalty to their employees back.  He tells the story of spending the night during a hurricane keeping the generators driving the phone system alive, leaving his late stage pregnant wife at home.  She used to tell the story from a different angle.  There seems to be much less of that in the modern telecommunications industry, with the companies trying to hire contractors if possible, thus having to pay them nothing in off peak times.

This used to be The Way.  Companies were loyal to their employees and vice versa.  A few deep pocked private companies might have an echo of it.  I don’t think you would generally assume all such owners are similar.

This might be touched by generation theory. A willingness to sacrifice to a larger entity for the sake of all can exist with other entities than the federal government. Maybe some of it might survive the Conservative time. If so, I have not seen much of it yet.