Profits these days come from the employees' pockets, and cutting corners on products and services.
Utter nonsense. More people than ever before enjoy the highest standard of living in this country today. And we enjoy access to better products and better services (remember when most cars were warranted for 12,000 miles and worn out at 60,000?

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Too bad more Americans can't spend a little time working in African famine camps or Haitian orphanages or on the streets of the Middle East - we'd spend less time whining about our own pampered lives.
America and Canada were built by risk takers. And they will be lost by the risk-averse.