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Originally Posted by JohnnyB
The extent to which businesses should be responsible to the 99% is a good question though. It seems to have become taken for granted that big business should be run with responsibility to shareholders only and that if any business acts responsibly towards the communities they operate in that should be thought of as a bonus. That does seem twisted to me. It seems very reasonable that businesses should be thought of as having responsibility to the communities in which they operate and that this should be expected, just as we expect other legal persons in our communities to share some responsibility for the community.
When it becomes taken for granted that members of the community should only act for themselves, even if this may be knowingly screwing over other people in the community in order to benefit from them, then the community has a problem.
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The only responsibility that big companies have to the 99% is to offer employment, and produce products.
They are responsible to their requirement to profit and to ensure that their shareholders get good return on their investment.
The community stuff that they do, or charitable donations are not requirements but bonuses to those programs.