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They're an absolutely staggeringly immense company and they fight tooth and nail to preserve their rent seeking and premium margins. Nobody owes them a positiv
by jclulow 2y ago
They're an absolutely staggeringly immense company and they fight tooth and nail to preserve their rent seeking and premium margins. Nobody owes them a positive interpretation of apparently poor behaviour, especially not when discoverable materials often show the principals are absolutely doing the wrong thing (e.g., Jobs and the anti-labour wage fixing racket).
If the company wants people to have positive thoughts, they should do positive things! If indeed there are positive reasons for an apparently negative thing, they should explain them.
If they can't or won't explain them, then people absolutely should assume if they feel like they're getting screwed, that they probably are.
- IgorPartola 2y ago> If the company wants people to have positive thoughts, they should do positive things! This is I think the crux of so many modern philosophical problems. Is it possible for a corporation to do the right things and thrive? Arizona Iced Tea could be an example of this I suppose. Do mega corporations and does Apple actually want people to think positive thoughts about them? We as consumers certainly want them to want that. But I have yet to see evidence of corporations caring about that. Do consumers at all care about how unethical a corporation is (to the first approximation; there are always protest. Remember when Budweiser went out of business? Or Harley?)? If not, this whole thing is moot.