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Re:Ask HN: What do you think of B-Corp (balance profit with ... by muzani on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @08:30PM (#28296727)
It's like legally binding yourself to cut on table sugar and ice cream. Sometimes you just end up taking more sugar through juice and yogurt.

Social enterprises here work the same way. I've seen people literally just cut the word "company" from banners and rebrand themselves as a social enterprise to get the benefits of being labeled as such. Someone out there produces inferior products and pays half the salary but it's okay, because everyone has to make sacrifices to meet this balance, especially customers and employees. One social entreprise recycles unused rooms in orphanages to plant mushrooms. My favorite was the one that supports the rejects of society (teen moms, trans people, drug addicts) by getting them to do food delivery.

Sorry for the cynicism, but it's a lot easier to get this wrong than it is to get a normal company to just be more responsible.

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