| > 1. Can we agree that the rules applied to a multinational corporation with billions in income utilized by hundreds of millions of people on a daily basis to exchange legal currency for goods and services should be different than the rules governing the bakery down the street? Yes. The core of the problem is the near monopoly that the small list of current payment processors have. As an aside, these companies have less global control than someone from the US or Europe might think. 2. If yes, then within the context of multinational financial corporations, what is "ethical"? A vegan credit card is entirely reasonable. Any ethical stance you want to take is reasonable. As long as you fix the actual monopoly problem. 3. Who decides what that definition is for a multinational financial corporation? It shouldn't matter if you fix the actual problem. Etc. Solving the actual problem instead of the perceived problem very often answers a bunch of doubts all at the same time. > I'd like to circle back to contract killing and ask what damn right does Visa have to limit one's freedom to run a contract killing business? The same right that I have to not be a contract killer. If your contract killing business can't find enough suppliers - be that the killers themselves or the payment processor - then that's a problem that no one should be compelled to solve. You don't have a basic human right to run any business you choose and force others to be suppliers to your business. |