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We need to reemphasize moral, environmental and humanitarian issues in our society. We are at a point again when the only thing that matters is money. Yes compa
by samschooler 8y ago
We need to reemphasize moral, environmental and humanitarian issues in our society. We are at a point again when the only thing that matters is money. Yes companies always support "green initiatives" and other causes... but at the end of the day this support is only there to help them turn a profit.
We as consumers (and co-riders on this planet) need to put our foot down and say "this stops here." Trump pushing for cost benefit analysis of saving endangered species, Facebook invading privacy regardless of what is necessary to push ads, companies pushing internet to developing countries in hopes of getting the market for themselves under the guise of "helping" these communities.
I don't have the answer, I just know if we want to grow as a society we need to learn that looking only for monetary profit is hopelessly shortsighted.
- shittyadmin 8y agoI miss businesses who didn't get involved in politics. Now it seems like everyone is pushing for them to do so and I'm sick and tired of everyone begging for their particular group to be pandered to. Even those who used to avoid it like the plague, like CloudFlare and Namecheap have caved to these sorts of political pressures in the past year.
- hypersoar 8y agoPolitics is unavoidable. All businesses and people interact with power structures in some way. Pretending that they don't isn't neutrality, but rather a passive endorsement of the way things are. Big, entrenched, successful companies often have the luxury of assuming this stance because they like the way things are. As for Facebook in particular, their goal from the beginning has been to insert themselves into everyone's conversations. It's particularly absurd to think that they can avoid politics.