Think as you like but behave like others is the western approach. They would bemoan the loss and be very emotional about it while internally thinking the same thing this guy said. I prefer my leaders to be less fluff.
Yes statistically many people die on the job in many countries but every one is still a tragedy. You can think that and be running a large organization.
I feel like many conservative thinkers believe that it’s all “fake” and just PR. But human empathy is a real thing.
Is it a majority? At what level of government do you think it becomes a majority or minority?
There’s people that don’t care. I just don’t see them in politics, they’re all business leaders.
I guess politics isn’t lucrative enough here.
The more "other", the more fake empathy.
I’m sure a lot of politicians will feel like it’s unfair to pin some event on them, and that might be their base reaction. But this is not a mutually exclusive thing! People can be mad about political messaging and still feel something about people dead while building a soccer stadium of all things.
I think it's essential for mental health to find a way to not grieve these strangers!
What’s the point of anything if we’re going to turn every person into a number? We can’t care about everything all the time, but if we do care about something, it’s probably for valid reasons.
And yet I think most politicians and leaders do not have true empathy, they are just faking it.
Your position seems to be that it doesn’t matter what leaders and politicians say if they don’t believe it in their heart. I think that’s less relevant than their actions.
(And FWIW, yes, usually when a worker dies on the job in the US the company does sponsor a memorial)
Have you perhaps considered that just because US society might be a few decades ahead in certain types of rights, that maybe that's just a fluke of nature and doesn't give the US any moral standing?
Edit: can't respond any more, so I will just say: this thread is exactly an example of fake empathy. None of these guys will go out of their way to help the migrant worker, they will demand others do so. Fake empathy.
To the extent that those ideals are “migrant worker’s lives should not be treated as expendable”, hell yes I am. (FWIW I’m Canadian, not American)
Your attempt at positioning that as some sort of cultural chauvinism is weird.
What? Who?
Amazon docks people productivity points for the time it takes to walk a longer route to avoid a dead body on the warehouse floor.
There’s plenty of room for improvement. But it used to be that a 10,000 person steel mill could expect 1200 deaths and serious injuries each year. That only changed because people cared enough to fight for better conditions.