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I generally agree and think this is a very helpful perspective. It's too much to expect companies to choose ethics over profit, even if the companies are tempor
by bo1024 7y ago
I generally agree and think this is a very helpful perspective. It's too much to expect companies to choose ethics over profit, even if the companies are temporarily made up of ethical people -- these are mere components. (Hence the goal of governments/regulations should be to align profit-making with societal goals.)
- salawat 7y ago>It's too much to expect companies to choose ethics over profit, even if the companies are temporarily made up of ethical people -- these are mere components. What's with the apologist mindset there? If you can't hold a group of people accountable for ethical conduct, from whence comes the idea that singular actors should be regulatable by traditional justice systems? Corporations were intended to distribute risk to enable collective groups to attempt something which none individually could have hoped to do without a significant chance of losing everything. They were not intended as a bulwark through which to engage in ethically dubious behavior in search of profit. Profit is not a right. Merely a happy byproduct of a job well done. Ethical behavior, and actually performing a valuable service for the society hosting the corporation is the primary goal. Not profit generation. The sheer bullheaded insistence that profit is the be all end all of human activity needs to die.
- bo1024 7y agoThanks for the post, I strongly agree with your points and may have stated mine badly. I am purely stating a descriptive view of how the world works. My conclusion is that we cannot just sit back and hope companies will act ethically. We have to actively shape the rules to incentivize or require them to do so.