[CobrastanJorji]

Right, exactly. When Walgreens says "Walgreens feels very strongly that labor unions do not serve the best interests of our individual employees or the company as a whole," they are lying. Walgreens is not a person. It does not feel anything. You might apply this to their leadership instead, but it's also understood that Walgreen's leadership is also lying. They are quite aware that a labor union would better serve their individual employees. It's just culturally accepted that corporations can nakedly lie about this sort of stuff and it doesn't matter.

What a company says "We prefer thing X," everything they say after that is just the autocomplete of ChatGPT with a prompt "make up reasons why X is good." They're not their actual justifications. Their actual justifications are usually readily apparent, but it's comes across better to just make inane statements than to speak the truth.

Political interviews have the same problem. You ask the politician a significant question with a yes/no answer. The politician says "this is important" and then makes noises for 20 seconds. The noises don't matter. They don't say anything. What they're actually doing is declining to answer, but culturally it's acceptable to do it this way, and it's unclear why.