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If you ask on the thievery forums they argue it is rightous and equivalent to the corporation minimizing their tax bill, at the significant cost to societies he
by brador 9y ago
If you ask on the thievery forums they argue it is rightous and equivalent to the corporation minimizing their tax bill, at the significant cost to societies health and wellbeing, to enrich shareholders.
It could be argued that they are correct.
- AnimalMuppet 9y agoThat makes it equivalent. It doesn't make it righteous. In fact, the way they talk about the corporations doing things "at the significant cost to societies health and wellbeing" shows that they know what the corporations are doing is morally wrong. Arguing that it's equivalent just shows that this is also morally wrong. There is no sane argument for "righteous" for this behavior.
- brador 9y agoWas Robin Hood righteous? One could see similarities in their tales. Robbing the rich (shareholders, corporations, “elites”) to give to the “poor” (lower classes, themselves). Just at a higher abstraction. The difference is the thiefs action is illegal, the corp actions legal but hated by the masses (who it could be argued don’t understand the nuances of tax accounting), but who should hold power in a democracy. It is what it is, and those forums are growing at an exponential rate as the punishments disappear. Worrying.
- mikestew 9y agoIt could be argued that they are correct. For extremely small values of "correct". It's apples-to-oranges; I have to pay taxes, one way or another. I don't have to shop at Tesco.