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Part One: Jack Welch Is Why You Got Laid Off

Behind the Bastards

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The Importance of Corporate Responsibility

In Friedman's eyes, the only responsibility corporations have is to maximize shareholder value. This creates in the short term massive wealth for a small number of people. But it also leads to deindustrialization that by the early 1980s had caused unemployment in the country to increase to 10 times its pre Pinochet rate.

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