• xyzzy@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    I know it’s hard to believe, but real people work at corporations, and some are even in positions of authority. Some of those people even have actual values and aren’t just playing an elaborate charade as part of some conspiratorial master plan.

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      But these are corporate actions meant to preserve the company and it’s legal defenses, they’re not doing it to preserve some individual suit’s moral principles or their love of democracy. Even if the companies themselves are Trump simps, they obviously don’t want their law firms to be as well.

      If its is a publicly trading corporation then it doesn’t matter how principled the or nice the people who work in it are. Share price is the only thing that matters. That’s by design. Even someone as powerful as the CEO can’t challenge that. Any CEO who says “it will cost us money but we should this because it’s the right thing to do” is going to be kicked to the curb faster than a union organizer. Private companies can still have a conscious to some degree as long as it’s the owner’s conscious.