wonderwench

I think we are going off topic, but I will make one final comment to answer your question.

I do not think it is unpatriotic to act in one's own self-interest in perfectly legal ways. Your examples are one-sided leaving out the benefits to the people served by such business decisions: shareholders, employees, customers and local merchants with whom employees do business, the community at large supported by the tax base and on and on.

I find that often only the negatives are cited without an equal discovery effort for the positives.