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Wouldn't see them "acting like villains in a sci-fi movie" if there weren't systematic economic incentives for them to act this way.

• roughly 4y ago
  And yet, every one of these organizations consists of individuals making sets of individual decisions on an ongoing basis, who indeed face incentives as well* but also persist in making the dubious ethical decisions that the company enacts, and we can in fact judge them for this, because companies are made of people who don’t actually abdicate moral responsibility for their actions by logging into a corporate email system. *And here’s where I digress to say, again, that, indeed if you are the single mother of a child with a heart condition wholly reliant on the expensive company health care not lapsing for even a minute lest your child not just die but literally explode, taking your whole family and half the neighborhood with them, I’m not judging you. If, on the other hand, you’re a single dude between 20 and 35 with a college degree, significant assets, no debt, and a sellable skillset, yes, you’re the one I’m judging.