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> Apple is a business. It won't fight a citizen's fight on your behalf. Being a business does not remove ethical considerations. And I’m an environment where c
by haswell 2y ago
> Apple is a business. It won't fight a citizen's fight on your behalf.
Being a business does not remove ethical considerations. And I’m an environment where corporations are considered people, it seems reasonable to expect some degree of alignment with normal citizens.
> Apple's goal is to make money. The government is a representation of your will.
The government is increasingly not a representation of the collective will, and is instead captured by those corporations.
I can’t help but feel the “but they exist to make money” line too often ignores the many ways this is not a sufficiently complex explanation of the situation.
- netdevphoenix 2y agoCorporations are people in the legal sense not in any other philosophical way. Just like non-humans proposed for personhood, they are not entities expected to behave ethically. Like a dog, you set rules and apply punishments when they breach it. You don't argue ethics with a dog because they are not relevant to them
- kennysoona 2y ago> where corporations are considered people, People always get this wrong. Corporations are not people. They just have certain rights like owning property. Corporate personhood != full personhood.
- lowbloodsugar 2y agolol. It literally does. This is a great example. You believe this is an ethical issue. Other shareholders (you are a shareholder, right?) could disagree and now there is a lawsuit. “Complying with national law” seems like an easy win for them.