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I don't blame TurboTax (Intuit). They do what any company in that position would. Hell, a good percentage of companies that exist probably shouldn't exist. Turb
by mnm1 7y ago
I don't blame TurboTax (Intuit). They do what any company in that position would. Hell, a good percentage of companies that exist probably shouldn't exist. TurboTax is definitely one of them. I blame our shit government for making such deals and not creating proper legislation. That's why such shit companies exist. There's literally no solution to this. Yeah, one can vote but that isn't actually a solution as it clearly doesn't get anything done. We have a failing government that is not and may never have been representative of any of its people, save for the ultra-rich. That's the real failing here. TurboTax is just a symptom of this disease.
- opportune 7y agoYou should blame Intuit since they lobbied for themselves to be put in this position
- apta 7y agoBoth the briber, err lobbyer, and the bribee are to be blamed.
- mnm1 7y agoAnd who wrote the laws allowing bribery? Congress. That's where the blame lies. If you create a system that can be abused, it will. If you create a system that's corrupt, why are you surprised when there's corruption? Blame the disease not the symptom. Our government is the disease. Corporations like intuit are just symptoms of the corruption. Legal corruption is still corruption. As they say, this is a feature not a bug from our government's point of view. Greatest country in the world for people who love to bribe. Corruption in most other places pales by comparison. Most places in the world outlaw bribery of government officials. We embrace it. So what if people get ripped off or even lose their lives? Business above all.
- chillacy 7y agoI don’t blame the mice for eating my garbage when I leave the door open, that’s just what mice do, they’re just trying to survive. It’s my job to keep the door closed.
- paulgb 7y agoThere is a (partial) solution to this: support press like ProPublica that bring the issues to light. Their reporting on a bill related to this, the Taxpayer Fist Act (H.R. 1957), was directly responsible for squashing a bad bill.
- rongenre 7y agoThey lobbied for this particular disease. They're entirely worthy of blame.
- kjsbfkjbf 7y agoCan we blame agents for acting rationally under capitalism?
- jakelazaroff 7y agoYes. It's rational to e.g. steal if you know you can get away with it, but it doesn't make it right.
- chillacy 7y agoAwfully confusing since stealing in this case (lobbying) is currently legal. Getting upset at TurboTax for lobbying is like getting upset when a baseball player steals a base.. it’s part of the game. If it isn’t working then change the rules of the game! Trying to shame every baseball player into not stealing bases isn’t gonna work, they want to win.
- kup0 7y agoI find their profit strategies to be abhorrent with their nag screens, bait & switches, dark patterns, purposely confusing "free" wording, no-indexing of the real freefile page, and so forth. I think that is clearly unethical business behavior. But you're saying one can only get upset at a company if they do something illegal, not if one considers what that company is doing unethical, regardless of legality? Legal does not equal ethical.
- chillacy 7y agoWhy not just enshrine a reflection of our morality into law itself? Large groups of people have shown a pretty bad track record of caring about "ethical behavior".