But public perception has huge repercussions in business. If screwing Chinese models contributes to bad public perception, business will realign and oust CEOs who do.

> screwing Chinese models

It's funny how the problem of Chinese models ended up affecting Nvidia and the US AI industry in general. Just not in the way it was predicted.

Bu dum da tiss! - Underrated!

You can make a profit while still being ethical. It isn't even hard to do so.

Sure you can, if you are your own one-man business. Otherwise it's exploitation—you're stealing from your workers. This is not remotely controversial. (or profit sharing etc, which is so rare as to mostly not exist)

Stealing from your workers - have you ever been in business in your life? A workman is worthy of his hire - which means you pay your employees what they are worth and keep the excess. If they want to capture all of it they can start their own business.

Only in a zero sum game, which capitalism fairly definitionally is not.

How do you figure? There are certainly places where we manage to create value, but this has little to do with capitalism and more to do with hauling shit out of the earth that we didn't have before.