I see a lot of the crying is about lost jobs and the resultant damage to communities.
Nobody is "owed" a job. Jobs exist at the leisure of the employer, and if it becomes economically or physically infeasible to continue your employment, your position will be eliminated. How fair or unfair the circumstances, is irrelevant. Why should a company run itself into the ground (i.e. bankruptcy) to provide jobs and preserve the status quo?
Dealing with change is hard, and it's nice if you can settle into a nice comfortable rut for a few decades, but that's becoming harder and harder these days.
As for the people displaced by these plant closures you can't tell me that:
1. Their skills are so specific to the industry that they were displaced from that NONE of them can be leveraged in another industry.
2. They are so deeply rooted in the local community that they can't pull up stakes and go where the jobs are.
Of course nobody should have to do what they don't want to do, but then don't come crying to me because you can't find a job in a dead town, and you're poor and miserable.
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