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That's unfair to Tim. He's a great help to the world's authoritarian regimes. He's doing plenty for them.
by rmtech 6y ago
That's unfair to Tim. He's a great help to the world's authoritarian regimes. He's doing plenty for them.
- abledon 6y agoIts his fiduciary duty, the obligation to maximize profits for the shareholders.
- takeda 6y agoYep, and that completly frees him from a human decency and we can't criticize his actions of putting money in front of ethics.
- gamblor956 6y agoNo it's not. He has a duty (not a fiduciary duty) to protect their investments, not to maximize profits.
- Klinky 6y agoOdd how the markets optimize for colluding with dictators and human-rights violating regimes. Such prosperity they bring the world.
- dantheman 6y agoOdd how every non market alternative is normally one of those human right violating machines and actively collaborates with them -- far more than those in markets do.
- Klinky 6y agoWho is the largest trading partner of the US? China. Also the market is global these days, it is very hard to isolate oneself, without strong policies and market regulation. The market alone is not ushering in new eras of freedom, it's feeding the beasts, and no one really puts their money where their mouth is.
- HashThis 6y agoThat is evil. Consumer companies (aka Apple) must work for their customers (citizens). If consumer companies are working to be betray citizens, their customers, then corporations are evil. Customers pay the bill and Apple choses to betray the very people who pay the bill.
- gwright 6y agoYou are creating a false dichotomy.
- barney54 6y agoHe does not have a fiduciary duty to kowtow to Belarus.