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I guess I would argue that, for the purposes of ethics, corporations don't exist. They are just people-groups organized (more in a flocking sense than a regimen
by mmcdermott 6y ago
I guess I would argue that, for the purposes of ethics, corporations don't exist. They are just people-groups organized (more in a flocking sense than a regiment) around some particular goal.
So, to rephrase the question, can an arbitrary collection of human beings behave ethically? The answer largely depends on your worldview, of course, but all unethical actions are taken by humans. Sure, it is a useful mental model to think of a corporation as a gestalt whole for some things, but that's all it is - a mental model.
- fake-name 6y agoIt's the opposite. For the purposes of corporations, ethics don't exist. Corporations are a people-group where everyone validates each other's decision to pursue profit ("we work for the shareholders") to the exclusion of ethics or morality. They're finely tuned mechanisms to exploit human's group-mentality in order to circumvent people ethical mores.
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- colejohnson66 6y agoThat’s a very cynical world view. So the second someone forms a corporation, they lose all their ethics and become slaves to making a profit?
- Clubber 6y agoNo, it usually happens when they become immensely profitable and there is a lot of shareholder pressure. Google started with harmless search adds to the side and out of the way of search results. Gotta grow for the shareholders though.