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You mean: Your move Larry, Mark, Steve, Merissa and Tim. In the end the base unit of society is still the human, no matter how many layers we place around them

• dmix 13y ago
  correction: > no matter how many [lawyers] we place around them A CEO/Chairman hurting a public companies profit via protest against NSA would result in shareholder lawsuits. Another good example of the the legal constructs around corporatism and public stock markets hurting the inherent protectionism from abuse free markets offer society. Corporatism often prevents large companies from acting morally, whether by being protected from real repercussions for acting maliciously via being a single legal entity (resulting in mass settlements not individual employee liability) or their legal obligations to only care about short-term profits (post-IPO), not long term gains or societal benefit.
  • robrenaud 13y ago
    What happened when Google left China?
    • MrKurtz 13y ago
      Their shares went down immediately after due to concerns they forfeited the opportunity to expand their business in the world's 2nd largest economy, but as the immediate economic damage was immaterial their decision wasn't followed with a deluge of shareholder lawsuits. Google already bowed out of one major market due to ethical disagreements, asking them to do that again with their home market is unrealistic - lobbying to mend the laws is the more sensible approach and one that scales better to businesses of that size. Besides despite disagreements with US policy it's still not China.
      • mh- 13y ago
        US policy: it's still not China. now there's a campaign slogan for 2016.