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In The Early 1970s, Milton Friedman Argued That Corporations Should Not Be Socially Responsible Because They Had No Mandate To Be; They Existed To Make Money, Not To Be Charitable Institutions. But In The Economy Of The 21st Century, Corporations Cannot Be Socially Responsible, If Social Responsibility Is Understood To Mean Sacrificing Profits For The Sake Of Some Perceived Social Good. That's Because Competition Has Become So Much More Intense.

If We're Concerned About Volatility Of Earnings Because We Want Some More Stability In Our Lives, Then Let's Create, Instead Of An Unemployment Insurance System, An Earnings Insurance System That Will Moderate The Volatility For A Certain Period Of Time Until We Get Back On Our Feet.

The Problem Right Now Is Jobs. The Problem Right Now Is The Economy And Economic Growth.

Here's Why I Think The Public Service Jobs Are Almost Unavoidable: When We Have Downturns In The Economy - And We Will, For We Haven't Repealed The Business Cycle - Unemployment Will Build, Yet We No Longer Have Any Safety Net. What Are We Going To Do? Unless We Decide To Pull Out All The Stops And Lower Interest Rates Immediately And Risk Turning A Recession Into Wild Inflation, We're Going To Have To Figure Out Some Way Of Providing Some More, Not Job Security, But Employment Security.

Social Change Occurs When The Gap Between The Ideals That People Hold And The Reality That They See Every Day Gets Too Large.