Q: How do you know when a trillion-dollar corporation is evil?
A: When it‘s a trillion-dollar corporation.
Q: How do you know when a trillion-dollar corporation is evil?
A: When it‘s a trillion-dollar corporation.
@jeroen Indeed.
@aral Just being a corporation is enough actually. The goal of corporations is to increase the money/payout for the shareholders, not to do good for the customers or heck the world, let alone to deliver a proper product.... oh and no, non-profits do not count anymore often unfortunately, they just make sure that the money is spent every cycle and often are just a way for tax write-offs for the large corporations...
@kpeace At the point where he decides to accumulate all that wealth instead of sharing it with his editor, the cast and crew of the movie, the people who built and work at his team parks, and with his community and the world at large. You don’t become a billionaire by bringing joy to people, you become a billionaire by allowing yourself to benefit the most from an unfair and unjust system. If he’d set up a cooperative and paid taxes like everyone else he wouldn’t be a billionaire.
@aral
A person writes a book. Its a hit! It brings joy and happiness to millions. They freely give him money for his book abd he becomes a millionaire.
He adapts it to movie and brings even more joy and happiness to humanity. As a by product he becomes a multi millionaire.
He creates a corporation to manage parks and rides, and people just can't get enough.
His company is worth trillions.
At what point those this person become evil?
@kpeace @jeroen By enclosing the commons, destroying the environment, and exploiting their workforce.
By selling a life-saving drug that costs $2 to produce at $1,000.
By not paying taxes.
In other words, in lots of ways. None of them good.
@jeroen
In a free market, how can a corporation make money without delivering value to the customers?
@aral
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