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by petralithic 273 days ago
> I don’t agree with the statement that corporations are machines to absorb money, behind corporations there are people and people must have morale.

This is covered by the principle of the diffusion of responsibility. One person may have morals but spread over many, the entire structure does not. Those corporations that do have morals are outcompeted by those that don't, in terms of amount of money made, so over time corporations that are not moral do better.

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I hope time and good people/consumers will prove your theory wrong.
Actually, over time they prove it right. I'm sure smaller companies back in the 1800s needed to be nice to their customers as they are likely neighbors or well known in the town or state, but now with multinational companies, there is no hope of them ever being nice to their customers.