[toofy]

> … and likely also don’t understand the difference and the consequences that well.

this could be a very good argument to explain why so many have become skeptical of companies.

we have example after example where companies take advantage of people.

hearing my grandfathers generation go on about “the days when you could trust a company to be fair” i used to think they were seeing with rose-tinted glasses, but more and more im convinced we’re dealing something much more nefarious than that generation.

[kjellsbells]

> the days when you could trust a company to be fair

Those days never really existed. It was simply that their misbehavior affected groups of people who didnt have access to the media and power structures. For the US, e.g.: central Americans (banana company inspired coups), native tribes (water pollution, deforestation), poor whites (coal ash pollution), etc.

I can see that companies treated their employees better, but that might also be correlated with strong unions, less regulatory capture, more competition, or some other factor, rather than intrinsic goodness.

[FredPret]

Companies used to hire Pinkerton detectives to put down strikes and make employees use company stores.

Behaviour has improved for various reasons.

All we’re seeing now is that people’s technological surface area is expanding from zero to infinity so there are lots of new little cracks and edge cases society still has to sort out.