People know that the business they're conducting is damaging society at large, so they build charity in so that they can feel like they're absolved. Google (or

People know that the business they're conducting is damaging society at large, so they build charity in so that they can feel like they're absolved. Google (or Apple, or Oracle) is damaging society? Must have missed that memo. Because from where a lot of people stand, the ability to access the world's knowledge and information, communicate with loved ones, and many other tasks, from a handheld device that costs a day's pay for the average worker ... that's not really "damaging society at large" so much as it is giving people an amazing gift.