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Why? Do you suggest the US has intrinsic rights to the goods of other nations?
by crispinb 4y ago
Why? Do you suggest the US has intrinsic rights to the goods of other nations?
- ImHereToVote 4y agoI think the point is that if a business is in the money making business. Then it seems kinda stupid not to make money.
- crispinb 4y agoNon-US companies have to justify all their decisions to their owners, but not to random foreign consumers.
- Dylan16807 4y agoNot a right, and not more than those other nations have the same thing, but otherwise yes because markets. Small entities can do whatever they want but big corporations should have justifications for not selling a thing.
- crispinb 4y agoNon-US corporations, of any size, have no duties towards US residents whatsoever. It's entirely their choice whether or not to enter foreign markets. Americans are not default humans, and they do not decide what products other nations' companies offer them.
- Dylan16807 4y agoNot a duty to the people buying, a duty to the owners of the company. To make a profit out of easy opportunities. Or justify not doing it, to the owners. And the duty to owners is what you said yourself in your other comment, so I'm not sure why you seem to not understand what I'm saying.
- crispinb 4y agoYou are making the exact blinkered US-centric assumptions I'm poking fun at. US companies may be duty bound to put increasing owner value above other considerations, but fortunately out here in most of the world, your law does not apply to us, and our laws are not modelled on yours. I can assure you, for example, that in many nations companies can legally have many reasons for choosing not to export a product to a specific country that don't make any reference to profit. Again: all you know is your laws. Your laws are not our laws. It's a big world out here, not encompassed by the mores of the nation you just happen to come from.
- Dylan16807 4y agoI'm not talking about laws. I'm talking about the nature of a normal to large corporation: to sell things. They don't have to maximize profit at the cost of other things. But if they want to ignore a huge sales venue, they should justify it. Justifying isn't some huge bar. It's due diligence. If you have many reasons, then write them down.
- crispinb 4y agoShimmy, shimmy. I can't be bothered with your incurious chauvinistic prattle and am done with you.
- Dylan16807 4y agoOkay, have fun projecting so hard over a very simple claim that companies should have justifications for their actions. You've been repeatedly arguing against a strawman where I want to force companies to make certain decisions. But that's not what I said at any point.