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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Along those lines, I wonder how much major companies give to charity and community enhancement programs relative that of the so-called 99%?
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There's no doubt that many big businesses do give large amounts to those kinds of causes, but if their only responsibility is to the shareholders and they are doing so to benefit the business that only earns limited credit when it comes to how people think of them. They do have financial incentives to do so, incentives for which political entities are responsible, and anyone arguing that a company's responsibility is only to shareholders should be able to acknowledge that those actions must ultimately be self serving if that is the case. Donations such as those made by organizations which take clearly unethical actions in other places such as financial institutions organizing a basically dishonest and massive transfer of wealth from the middle classes to the upper class are obviously also not going to go too far in assuaging people's negative emotions. Rightly so in those cases.
When people start acting in business as though business is exempt from ethics in any non-legislated areas that is a problem. I think people are frustrated in feeling that's what's happened and frustrated in feeling that it's also lead to the failure of the political system they should have a voice in.