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You act as though business is this totally seperate thing to life. Business is some fancy legal words wrapped around the activities of groups of people. Saying
by Jedi72 9y ago
You act as though business is this totally seperate thing to life. Business is some fancy legal words wrapped around the activities of groups of people. Saying businesses are only driven by profit is not fundamentally different from saying "employees and shareholders of Apple are greedy people who put personal gain over the moral principles of our society"
- TeMPOraL 9y agoIt's a practical point of view, not theory of society. It's great when companies put morals over profits, but they generally don't - companies don't gain much from being good and don't lose much from being evil; the impact is not big enough to offset the importance of being effective on the market. Companies that fail to be effective get outcompeted and die.
- emodendroket 9y agoIn the shorter term they are likely to face pressure from investors if they're doing something like taking a stand that shuts them out of a huge market like China.
- emodendroket 9y agoOrganizational dynamics frequently lead to organizations behaving in a way that their members probably would not conduct themselves in their personal lives.