On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 11:40 -0600, Nicholas Leippe wrote: > But why find fault with a business for focusing on money? Really? > Step in their shoes for a second--their reactions seem fairly natural > and unsurprising.
So does arson and clear cutting forests if you in the home building business. Does the benefit of such to shareholders also free them from the need to provide any other benefit to society? The assumption that the western model of allegiance to shareholders above all else is the one true way to do business is myopic. It's a fundamentally flawed model. We could learn a lot from companies that put more emphasis on long term survival instead of short term returns. To say nothing of learning from countries that recognize a greater responsibility to employees specifically and the community or nation generally. Is your argument really so simplistic as: 1) The goal of a company is to make money. 2) Given that companies are good and anything that prevent them from making money is bad... 3) Anything that prevents a company from making money is bad. 4) And anyone that suggests that a company consider anything other than the bottom line is not only bad but stupid. 'Cause that seems like pretty flawed logic to me. -- "XML is like violence: if it doesn't solve your problem, you aren't using enough of it." - Chris Maden /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
