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Stop criticizing large corporations as moral entities. They have no other incentives other than money. Corporations are amoral (not good or bad). Only money matters.

South Park can go on because they make money. Talk-shows are already dying and cutting them is easy choice even under mild pressure.

The value talk they use is PR aimed at stakeholders (customers, employees, government). No company has taken a stance where they willingly accept net negative returns if they have other choice.



Organizations are led by humans.

> Stop criticizing large corporations as moral entities. They have no other incentives other than money.

I want better for the world.


Ask for regulation.

Amoral entities can work towards good goals when incentives are right. Empty moral grandstanding does not help.


> Amoral entities

Organizations are led by humans.

I want better for the world.


You want people to act out of something other then self interest? People like that are the one's who have caused the most trouble.


People who have refused to bend to power for the greater good are not the ones who have caused the most trouble.


> No company has taken a stance where they willingly accept net negative returns if they have other choice.

Demonstrably untrue. Nihilist generalizations make a poster feel cool, but they aren't helpful.


This is not nihilism. We must choose methods that work. Like regulation.

Moral grandstanding does not work.


More positively, though - don't forget "B Corporations"; https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/


>Stop criticizing large corporations as moral entities. They have no other incentives other than money. Corporations are amoral (not good or bad). Only money matters.

Not just corporations, every institution from the church to every silo in your government to big nonprofits. The latter ones just have less measurable goals than profit, but they sociopathically seek their goals all the same. Beyond a certain scale organizations staffed by humans no longer act human.




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