“Why? Because she is mine! Did you hear that? Why? Because here, here is a voice saying that I shouldn't kill her yet, and it will work this time! Nothing has failed, nothing yet!”
It seems odd to pay a worker compensation because his firm has succumbed to competition from imports, but give him nothing if it has been put out of business by a company up the road, or failed to adapt to changes in technology or in customers' tastes.