business is not restrained by government or censured by media or religious elites when it removes the economic base of entire towns to generate higher profits for owners and shareholders. it is not illegal for corporations to accept millions of dollars in start-up grants and tax-free allowances and then relocate or shut down when the tax holiday ends; it is perfectly acceptable to pay ceos millions of dollars in salary and stock options when the company is losing money and firing long-term employees. such activities are seen not as criminality or greed, but as the unavoidable price to be paid (by employees, not employers or corporate capital) to create "flexible" economic systems. paying employees wages insufficient to meet their daily needs is not regarded as inhumane. forcing employees to work sixty-hour weeks or evening and weekend shifts - practices that can destroy family life and impair the ability to parent in a responsible manner - are not censured as criminogenic corporate behaviour. however, should employees take too long for lunch or surf the internet on company time, they are guilty of "theft of time."
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