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> You cannot expect corporations to act benevolently or morally You absolutely can and should expect good behavior of corporations. You can't rely only on tha
by ska 6y ago
> You cannot expect corporations to act benevolently or morally
You absolutely can and should expect good behavior of corporations. You can't rely only on that expectation so agree if it's important, legislate it.
- ouid 6y agoYou absolutely can't and shouldn't expect this. Corporations are your adversary.
- salawat 6y agoCorporation are tools wielded by committees of people. If you don't like the outcome, change the people.
- vkou 6y agoYou can't change the people owning or running a corporation, but you can change the rules they operate under. In this case, though, I don't think the rules should be changed. I'm fairly certain that Tesla is not the first automaker to have come up with this kind of money-saving idea. This has to be well-trodden ground in consumer rights. In this case, people should vote with their wallets, and the occasional class-action lawsuit, or, if things get too far out of line, expect the same kind of regulator intervention that would happen against any other car company. If regulators would not intervene against any other automaker trying this sort of thing, then I don't think they should intervene against Tesla.
- ska 6y agoI think this is too binary. By all means don't count on it, but we can and should expect better.
- retsibsi 6y agoThis disagreement happens often, and I think that's partly because there are two meanings of 'expect': to regard something as likely, or to regard it as the rightful or obligatory standard of behaviour. If you expect (in the first sense) benevolent corporate behaviour, in the absence of incentives that align benevolence with self-interest, you're generally being naive. But if you expect (in the second sense) benevolent corporate behaviour, and act accordingly, you may be helping to create that alignment -- because corporations and the people who control them usually care about their public image (certainly when it directly affects consumer behaviour), and legislators are usually at least somewhat responsive to public pressure. So having the first kind of expectation leads to unhelpful complacency; but lacking the second kind of expectation leads to unhelpful cynicism, cashing out as acquiescence to the status quo.
- pelliphant 6y agoI seriously hadn't considered the second definition of the word. Thnx.