Re:Facebook Employees Say Apple Fight Is “Self Serving”
by fake-name on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @03:29PM
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It's the opposite. For the purposes of corporations, ethics don't exist.
Corporations are a people-group where everyone validates each other's decision to pursue profit ("we work for the shareholders") to the exclusion of ethics or morality. They're finely tuned mechanisms to exploit human's group-mentality in order to circumvent people ethical mores.
Re:Facebook Employees Say Apple Fight Is “Self Serving”
by colejohnson66 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @06:38PM
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That’s a very cynical world view. So the second someone forms a corporation, they lose all their ethics and become slaves to making a profit?
Re:Facebook Employees Say Apple Fight Is “Self Serving”
by Clubber on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @07:32PM
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No, it usually happens when they become immensely profitable and there is a lot of shareholder pressure.
Google started with harmless search adds to the side and out of the way of search results. Gotta grow for the shareholders though.
So, to rephrase the question, can an arbitrary collection of human beings behave ethically? The answer largely depends on your worldview, of course, but all unethical actions are taken by humans. Sure, it is a useful mental model to think of a corporation as a gestalt whole for some things, but that's all it is - a mental model.