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Not to defend corporations, but they do. It’s repeatedly drilled down in you to reach out to the legal dept. That said companies care a lot about the legality of things and not necessarily the morality. And they hire people who would “get things done”. Consequently converting the legal training to “how to avoid to getting caught” training.


>That said companies care a lot about the legality of things and not necessarily the morality.

I worked for a fortune 100 company. We are humans, and our customers are humans. We absolutely have morals - at an individual level, and those morals influence how we work


Morals don’t matter when the shareholders sue board members for failing to uphold fiduciary responsibility. Just saying, the law influences how we work


Fiduiciary responsibility does not mean operating like you are bankrupt tomorrow.


Shareholder sue for almost everything in the US. It's the modern general purpose regulation.

That often includes stuff that you would classify under 'morals'.




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