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by fullshark 22 days ago
The CEO has a fiduciary duty to act in the best financial interests of the company and its investors. So if slavery were legal and the company weren’t using slaves the CEO would be in violation of that responsibility and would be thrown out by the board.

It’s best just to view these organizations and the people who run them as immoral and sociopathic money printing machines. Expecting morality is just going to disappoint you.

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>It’s best just to view these organizations and the people who run them as immoral and sociopathic money printing machines.

People say this a lot, but that is exactly what we are doing.

We criticize their behavior and words. We are disgusted by them. We want things to change. We write about and speak about it. We vote (hopelessly). That is exactly how normal humans behave in regard to those they view as "immoral and sociopathic", as you say. "That's how the system works" is a fine thing to point out, but it's not some kind of evidence that people shouldn't react they way they do - that they should just accept it forever.

We are already doing what you are suggesting.

The logical next step is then regulation is it not? I don't hear a lot of clamor for regulation on these boards.