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So you think they should protect civil rights through lobbying while simultaneously profiting off of the erosion of civil rights? What about leading by example?

• jedberg 8y ago
  Telling Amazon to lead by example is about as fair as telling Warren Buffet to "just pay more taxes then" when he complains that rich people don't pay enough taxes. It doesn't work when only one player does it. That's why Amazon should lobby, and that's why Buffet spends his time lobbying while simultaneously employing accountants to reduce his tax bill.
  • Larrikin 8y ago
    Why is the argument that they must profit off it while legal while also lobbying against it? Why can't they lobby against it and not profit from the erosion of our civil rights?
    • drankula3 8y ago
      Large corporations have a Board of Directors composed of people voted into the position by shareholders. This means that large corporations need for the most part to do what shareholders want, or else they will be voted out. There's also a matter of business competition. If Amazon stops worrying about profits, leverage, and expansion, that leaves areas that competitors can move in _within their domain_. This is why it seems all the big organizations behave sociopathicly: it's required to be on top. Laws are designed to create limits on corporations to explicitly express how big businesses can behave, and it's not the businesses fault that those laws haven't been keeping up with the times.