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by dunefox 2196 days ago
> If they truly cared about health

It's a company, it doesn't and cannot care about anything other than profit.

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A company is just a group of people working together.

It can care about whatever those people choose to care about.

That has nothing to do with the position of the company, though. The employees can care about what they want.
Companies used to serve multiple stakeholders that included, employees who worked for them, communities they were present in, customers they served, etc. in addition to stock holders. Slowly, slowly, the definition of stakeholders has been shrunk and reduced to stock holders and responsibilities reduced to maximizing profit. Of course these stakeholders and responsibilities are being further reduced slowly slowly to where companies only exist to benefit large shareholders and corporate executives.

I am guessing you might be young and may not be aware of history of corporations.

It does. If the employees of the company have a coherent stance on something, that's exactly what the company's stance is.
They need to care about their customers to make profit?!