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>They have been hearing from ringless voice mail providers and pro-business groups, which argue that these messages should not qualify as calls and, therefore,
by gech 9y ago
>They have been hearing from ringless voice mail providers and pro-business groups, which argue that these messages should not qualify as calls and, therefore, should be exempt from consumer protection laws that ban similar types of telephone marketing.
There's no limit to how low pro-business thinking can go.
- rhizome 9y agoThere is no "low" in business thinking. Capital is amoral.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoTrue - for all businesses in which there is only capital involved and no people [or animals, or environmental concerns, or ...]. Capital may be amoral, but the people using it certainly are not.
- rhizome 9y agoPeople can be amoral. The word wasn't coined only to apply to things that aren't people.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoSeems I'm wrong. I was working on amoral as meaning without morality rather than without concern for morality, so excuse my ignorance. Under my (wrong) definition I was expressing that people's actions always have moral consequences as that appeared to me the contrary of what the parent was suggesting. Thanks for calling it out The sibling comment by s73ver however remains valid I feel, capital is unconcerned with morality but people are concerned with it in general (not being so is considered a mental illness).
- rhizome 9y ago(not being so is considered a mental illness) It absolutely is not. Here's just one example, and note that the defendants did not plead insanity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal I can find many, many more examples of both overt and subtle rejections of moralities you appear to think is a requirement for a functional life in society, but even without that we can find capitalist amorality all day every day in the form of fraud.
- s73ver 9y agoPeople aren't. And unless we have business robots, there are still people involved.
- rhizome 9y agoThe moral hazard of capital is that people lose their humanity, so to speak, so "people aren't" isn't actually a limit on the behavior of capitalists.