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They are a business, after all.
by dlivingston 8y ago
They are a business, after all.
- tivert 8y ago> They are a business, after all. Just like a cigarette company that doesn't want to leave money on the table from not courting youth sales. It's a twisted idea that the logic of business success can be used to justify all kinds of destructive and harmful decisions by businesses.
- dlivingston 8y agoAgreed, but the idea that any publicly traded company can or will have ethics is an equally absurd idea. I tend to think of companies as Darwinian machines whose evolutionary 'fitness function' is the maximization of profits.
- nickodell 8y agoThere are both business and public policy arguments for not banning political ads, as the article notes.
- spiznnx 8y agoWell, by not "leaving money on the table" they now have an existential crisis.