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How so? The nature of profit ethics is that the right thing to do is what is profitable. This is exactly what they are doing in both cases. They have never done "the wrong thing".
I am asking if there exists any ethical system under which their actions are worse than doing what the original poster considers to be wrong in both cases.
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> Doing a tiny good deed for manipulative reasons can be a net negative. In this case, how?
A company that does a good deed will draw attention and support away from other companies. If the good deed was done for ethical reasons, then that attention and support will feed further good deeds in the future. If it was done for manipulative reasons, then it dilutes the money going to the more ethical companies. The manipulative company is less likely to do good deeds in the future. It's more likely to ignore opp…
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I am asking if there exists any ethical system under which their actions are worse than doing what the original poster considers to be wrong in both cases.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21207175 , a reply to you well before you submitted this comment.
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A company that does a good deed will draw attention and support away from other companies. If the good deed was done for ethical reasons, then that attention and support will feed further good deeds in the future. If it was done for manipulative reasons, then it dilutes the money going to the more ethical companies. The manipulative company is less likely to do good deeds in the future. It's more likely to ignore opp…
In what way would the long term effect be worse if they had not done anything in North Carolina? Did their actions in North Carolina keep them alive long enough to apologize to China?
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Your statement is still absurd. Would you consider an Irish American player to be “exported from” Ireland?
Probably? Why would that be different?
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You may overestimate how valuable western eyeballs are, a billion people can recreate this industry with government support quite easily.
You may overestimate how valuable those billion viewers are, most of them don't have the money to buy anything. Also, there are a great many cultural and economic reasons that foreign players generally avoid playing in China's existing professional sports league. Political oppression is just one of those reasons.
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At the rate they're making money (NBA), why does ADDITIONAL PROFIT matter ? We aren't 'the ferangi'; people are more important than profits, but American corporations seem to have ignored or forgotten that. Screw NBA market share, or financial well-being. Democracy and human rights are vastly more important!
On a tangent, what is "the ferangi"? Because that's what Indians call Europeans.