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interesting...
consider though...
the profits derived from higher unit sales volumes are distributed in the form of earnings and payments to the various financial stakeholders or plowed back into the corporation in the form on capital investment. most often in research and development and product development. unfortunately, product development does not always equal product improvement. but the advancement of technology is fueled by profit. inventors dont want to be paid with brownies, meatballs, and kind words. they want a paycheck like anyone else. by restricting the corporation's ability to continue bringing in profits, you restrict its ability to attract bright young talent. when the corporation cant afford to hire our own homegrown talent...we have to move our labor resource offshore. to india for instance, where highly skilled engineers are willing to work for half the price of an equally skilled american. then someone is going to cry "CORPORATIONS ARE GIVING AMERIANS JOBS AWAY TO FOREIGNERS!!!" i mean, i could go on and on...the effects of continuing to restrict corporate profiteering are pretty nasty and at some the point the law of diminishing returns kicks in on this whole social responsibility thing. at what point do you regulate the corporation so much that the sideaffects begin to outwiegh the advantages gleaned from this regulation.
in my opinion, you need to chose your battles with corporate americe very carefully...and fighting them about cheeseburgers when its really our job not to eat them if we are fat, is the wrong fight.
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