• lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      With the current US government, there’s far more roadblocks to running a company ethically than turning it to absolute shit

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      If regulators don’t stop them from doing it, the CEO’s of publicly traded companies will get the boot from the board for not doing it. They have a fiduciary duty to be as shitty as humanly possible.

      We need laws to stop this, but the politicians are all bribed not to.

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        They have a fiduciary duty to be as shitty as humanly possible.

        They don’t – that’s a cargo-cult misunderstanding of Dodge v. Ford Motor Co – but it’s so widely believed I guess it might as well be true.

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          If the people sitting on the Supreme Court believe it, and I believe the majority of those shitbags do, then that is unfortunately the law as it stands.

          But when the law is unethical, I don’t see why we should be lawful.

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      It’s like every company that wasn’t complete playing the social good will game and didn’t appear at a casual glance to be shit just suddenly decided to…go to complete shit. masks off, because they saw it might finally be acceptable to be ghouls again.

      Unfortunately, I’m pretty sure I FTFY. Wish it weren’t so, but that’s definitely what it looks like…

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        The mask of humanity fall[s] from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone – everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed.

        • The Deserter, Disco Elysium

        They are just taking the mask off since they don’t have to wear it right now.

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          Game is such a fucking gem. I gotta do a replay soon.

          They are just taking the mask off since they don’t have to wear it right now.

          Cuts into profit margins pretending to not be a threat to the continued existence of the species and ecosystem as a whole. Gotta buy that 15th mega-yacht.

          Something something, I’ll bring the BBQ sauce.

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      Unrestrained Capitalism. Without those pesky regulations, companies can charge us all unlimited amounts and not have to consider our rights or health/safety.