>>20113897This kind of corporate greed has infected North America most of all. The US is stricken with it: offshore not because staying put isn't profitable, but because it's more profitable to offshore. Then whine about having to live up to land reclamation or other such agreements made before the extraction processes were even approved.
One of the Ukrainian companies I am in touch with offers an extensive training academy for new employees or employees who want to learn new skills, offers schools (good ones) for employees' children, and is totally vertically integrated for electricity production, owning coal mines and removing the methane and then generating power for millions of people.
You just don't see companies like that in the USA. Such vertical integration used to be common here, but not so much anymore due to "postmodern" like supply chains and fracturing of companies into all their little components, so that each part of the process doesn't have to be responsible for or accountable to another part of the process. And the schools and daycares for workers' kids are holdovers from the Soviet days.
I like Metinvest, a met coal miner, coker, and steel producer. It employs 90,000 people internationally and, with the war in Ukraine, is stepping up to the plate in terms of social and national responsibility, mobilizing its resources for the war effort.
Love or hate Ukraine, support or oppose it -- I don't care. But what I've seen in my cursory examination has been a true spirit of togetherness. I have no doubt some kleptocrats are on the take, but Russia seems much more corrupt in that regard.
The way I look at a career is I am giving my all to the company so I want an equal commitment from the company in return. Maybe Eastern European companies have this spirit, like Japanese ones too.
