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Originally Posted by Charlatan
When you are chasing profit as your only motivation, evil becomes something you do to keep the machine going. To keep growth happening. To keep the cogs of business in the black.
Are corporations evil. Not inherently so. Are they conducive to evil? Yes.
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I wish I had a link, but I read it in the magazine a few years back and don't recall which computer magazine it was.
They did a test of the honesty of computer repair. They went to several big chains with a very minor issue (cable unplugged or the like) and of course had solutions from new motherboard to plugging back in the cable.
They got a lot of letters complaining they didn't check out the small 'ma and pa' computer stores. The gist was they would be more honest.
Well they did the test again, only this time they included a bunch of private stores. The results were they ripped off MORE by the small, single owner stores, than by the chain stores.
Where am I going with this? Well people do evil, and a corporation does not make you more evil nor does it make you immune from doing evil. Ask Skilling and Ken Lay how that all worked out for them.