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(like I said..) I'm impressed with the prowess of the MATERIALS SCIENCE in companies like 3M and DuPont, certainly not the business ethics. Please don't confla
by loxias 5y ago
(like I said..) I'm impressed with the prowess of the MATERIALS SCIENCE in companies like 3M and DuPont, certainly not the business ethics.
Please don't conflate admiration for the fascinating engineering work with endorsement of an entire company's impact on the world!
- __alexs 5y ago3M certainly do good some science, they just had(?) a terrible engineering ethics problem.
- Sporktacular 5y agoThe issue is that when you remove social and environmental ethical constraints, a lot of companies would become impressive in a technological, financial or managerial sense. But if you include them and measure 3M's, Dupont's etc. performance in a strong regulatory environment with good compliance, they earn decidedly unimpressive overall scores and can be seen as bunch of greedy, clever, selfish parasites, gaming the system. That's why narrow statements praising one aspect of their performance paints half a picture. Like calling a war criminal an effective tactician - technically correct, but against the big picture, so what?