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> Nevertheless, Herbalife recruiting materials were festooned with “images of expensive cars and opulent mansions.” Why does it stay in business? Because there
by hervature 6y ago
> Nevertheless, Herbalife recruiting materials were festooned with “images of expensive cars and opulent mansions.”
Why does it stay in business? Because there is nothing wrong with a company that exploits the greed of individuals. Yes, some people are compelled due to desperate situations. But the solution here is raising the education level high enough to not succumb to their inner greed. The solution isn't reactively outlawing knives that cut more people than others.
- aj7 6y agoMaybe you have all smart relatives. But there is a certain cruelty in doing business by deceiving people, and where the remedy is ex post facto “raising your education level” to become less deceivable.
- awinder 6y agoIf a business couldn’t exist in a world full of smart people, that’s a pretty good clue that you should just go after it now. You’ll be waiting forever on the former.
- smnrchrds 6y agoIf you read the news about people falling victims to frauds and scams, you will notice most of those interviewed are young adults and old people. This is not a coincidence. You can educate people all you want, but those too young to have absorbed it or too old to be able to retain it (due to mental decline) will remain vulnerable. Mental decline happens to everyone. Not necessarily to a severe level that would make one incapable of living independently, but enough to make them less sharp. You may be young enough to spot a scam from miles away, but your senses will most likely dull over time. In a couple of decades, you may be just as likely to be featured in a news piece about victims of a scam as the ones you are calling uneducated and greedy now.
- netsharc 6y agoCapitalism is strange that way, it's weird how our default state in business is to not being able to trust each other, because we assume the other party is probably trying to screw us over. I was wondering if it's always been like that since Roman times, since there's even a Latin term for "Buyer beware": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caveat_emptor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caveat_emptor .
- liability 6y ago> Why does it stay in business? Because there is nothing wrong with a company that exploits the greed of individuals. There's certainly plenty wrong with it; perhaps you meant to say it's not illegal.
- smabie 6y agoI mean, morality is an opinion, so it doesn't really make sense to try and correct someone about it.
- liability 6y agoIs the internet not a perfectly reasonable place to state a reasonable and mainstream opinion? And if not, why don't you tell this to the GP as well? I responded to a statement of opinion with a counter-opinion.
- nathan_compton 6y agoThis is an incredibly glib dismissal of an entire area of philosophy. It may seem intuitively obvious to you that there are not moral facts (it seemed intuitively obvious that the opposite was true to people even as recently as 150 years ago) but the debate is hardly settled by any intervening scientific or cultural or philosophical advancement. I guess read J.L. Mackie's "Ethics" for an introduction to the subject.
- matz1 6y agoMorality is subjective, maybe its wrong to you but may not wrong for me.