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Originally Posted by Charlatan
This is the thing: Corporations don't have ethics or morals. They are money making ventures. Period.
If you don't like what a Corporation does, you have three choices:
1) don't buy their products and services
2) change the system so Corporations can't get away with what they do
3) shrug your shoulders
Check out this film The Corporation it is a great film that explores the history and the reality of the Corporation. |
Not necessarily. The company I work for happens to have a gifted young VP who does everything in his power to be a responsible boss and responsible community member. I make sure that we donate money to local causes, like everything from little league to homeless shelters. I do everything I can to make sure that my employees make fair wages. I am not alone. There are people out there who use their fortune (both uses of the word) to help people instead of being money grubbing bastards. Yes, my company has to make money, but I do everything I can to fool the company into donating money and time to good causes (I always give the "It's good PR!!" schpeel, and it tends to work at least some of the time). I know there are companies and even corporate entities who do their best to help out. Not everyone is bad, and even the most jadded among us (myself included) always have to try and remind ourselves this fact.
The reason I say this is because maybe some asshole out there is reading this and wants to change (but doesn't think anyone else does). Here's the thing: everyone is basically good, in some way or another. People can be driven to be bad, or into hazy realities in which morality is relative or flexable, but at our core we all are good. I'm good, you're good, Charlatan is good (obviously) , and yes even Geore W. Bush is good. It's important to remember this when you see great good or great 'evil' (or bad). When I think of the people at Caterpillar who were responsible for filling the Israeli orders for buldozers, for example, I think of people who have families to feed and who are responsib le for the jobs of thousands of people. I understand that they feel that, despite the ends of their sale, they are vindicated by doing good elsewhere (that's the hazy reality/flexible morals I was talking about before). The problem is that while the families of these people have food on their table, and the employees have plenty of work, innocent Palestinians are having their homes demolished. To me, that's unacceptable, and - given the opportunity - I would never buy items from Caterpillar because of it. I guess that's about it.