[deltarholamda]

Agree very much with this. To mix metaphors, megacorps see you as cattle to be fleeced. Any public good they might do is a public relations stunt or to take advantage of something, e.g. open source development. Yes, there are people in charge, but their duty is to the corporation. Corporations do not have ethics. They cannot have ethics.

A person should be ethical to another person, because that person can reciprocate. A person should only interact with a corporation in terms of legal frameworks, which are also amoral, because that is the only "moral" framework within which a corporation can act. The fictional personhood of a corporation is just that, a fiction.

(There is somewhat of a sliding scale on this, in that a small corporation formed to protect a fruit stand or something is certainly not Microsoft and shouldn't be treated as a Microsoft.)