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No people in charge is alive, but the company still is. It means at least some of its current assets are of dubious origin.
by sacado2 8y ago
No people in charge is alive, but the company still is. It means at least some of its current assets are of dubious origin.
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoYou're talking in a forum based in the US, a nation founded on invasion, genocide and slavery.
- DoofusOfDeath 8y agoIf you look back far enough, I imagine almost every country has such a legacy. The capacity for that behavior lies in all peoples.
- teamhappy 8y agoYou don't have to look back too far though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
- perl4ever 8y agoIBM seems to be mentioned more than all the US companies that did business with Stalin's Russia. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease
- Frondo 8y agoYeah but our US government made a bunch of treaties with the people living here before us that we immediately started breaking and have continued to break ever since. This isn't something that's just an "in the past" thing, it's a current wrong our people are committing against the people we displaced.
- dannyw 8y agoThat’s the point of GP
- mkirklions 8y agoCompany culture is passed down.