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They are a business, after all.
> They are a business, after all. Just like a cigarette company that doesn't want to leave money on the table from not courting youth sales. It's a twisted idea that the logic of business success can be used to justify all kinds of destructive and harmful decisions by businesses.
Agreed, but the idea that any publicly traded company can or will have ethics is an equally absurd idea. I tend to think of companies as Darwinian machines whose evolutionary 'fitness function' is the maximization of profits.