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Then you're wrong, Microsoft (or any company for that matter) have never been like people that you can judge like "good" or "bad". They are businesses, whose pu
by capableweb 4y ago
Then you're wrong, Microsoft (or any company for that matter) have never been like people that you can judge like "good" or "bad". They are businesses, whose purpose is to make money. They do whatever seems best to do at the time in order to optimize most money earned. The same every single public company does, all the time.
- Karunamon 4y agoThis is pretty reductive since businesses are made up of people who can make good and bad decisions. The "maximize shareholder value" imperative has never been successfully read so strictly against a company that it prevented them from pursuing other goals; as an example Tim Cook rather infamously told an Apple activist investor representative that they should "get out of this stock" "if they only want them to do things for ROI reasons" [1]. So no, we can and should hold the companies accountable for the bad they do and praise the good. [1]:https://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/tim-cook-soundly-rejects-politics-of-the-ncppr-suggests-group-sell-apples-s https://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/tim-cook-soundly-rej...
- JonChesterfield 4y agoYou can definitely judge a company to be bad. Nestle is the second one to come to mind. You judge the company on its actions.