The United States is a mature and established nation, but for those in the work force, especially those of middling to poor educational achievements, as well as those that though educated, have degrees in areas of expertise that don’t readily match up well with good employment opportunities -- thereby presents the issue that there is a significant number of employees in America that clearly do not have any real semblance of long-term job security at a decent and living wage. One might believe that this is the very nature of capitalism, and if it is, then this so represents capitalism at its worse; for the more people that don’t have job security, and therefore do not have appropriate wages and a livelihood that they can build a solid foundation upon, therefore represents people that are subject to having the little that they have established, surely and inexorably eroded from them.
Further to the point, a significant problem with the capitalistic system, writ large, is the strong tendency for so many of those institutions to desire to privatize and/or to localize their earnings and profit, to being specifically earmarked to the cream of the crop of the elite as well as of their investors, thereby creating an ever increasing amount of inequality between those that have it made, compared to those that have little or nothing; in which, the end result of this reflects that corporate profits are essentially privatized, whereas, the cost for those that end up being unemployed, underemployed, underpaid, or dismissed, is basically socialized to the people, at large.
The way that employment should work, once a given company reaches some size of substance in regards to employed workers, or sales, so of, is that the corporation should first and foremost be held accountable to the human element of those that work for them, as contrasted to concentrating strictly on profit or gross margin, above all. This thus helps to emphasize that in the reality of the business world that there are going to be those times of plenty, as well as invariably those times of scarcity, in which, it is those tough times, that companies prove their mettle to those that have been loyal workers to that corporation.
That is to say, corporate profits do not need to be always generously distributed at the very time that they so occur to the elites and to their investors, but rather it would serve the general public better if more profits would be permitted to accumulate on corporate balance sheets, so as to be there, when so needed to be called upon, for those tough times, instead. After all, job security is going to only be possible within a given corporate structure, if that is an actual priority of that company; so that, those companies that answer only to profit, or earnings, or the short-term, are going to have a strong tendency to care not a whit about job security for those that they employ, because they have prioritized their greed above their obligation to be fair and just to those that have done their good part on behalf of that corporation, in their expectation that the company will do them right and not wrong.