On 5/22/2010 6:38 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
From: Steven Desjardins
The way people do business reflects their own perception of the way
they are treated. If you think that companies will do anything they
can to cheat you, they you will reply in kind. This is especially
true if they believe that big companies are in some fundamental way
"not a person" and do not merit ethical treatment. You can't cheat
an inanimate object.
I have no love for corporations but if you allow yourself to slip into
this way of thinking then you only degrade your own sense of morality.
You can begin to treat other individuals in this impersonal way of
"doing business". My position is that you do yourself more harm
psychologically/spiritually than you gain in the material transaction.
Alternatively, you might take the popular view amongst corporate
apologists that, as Milton Friedman stated in "The Social
Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits" (The New York
Times Magazine, September 13, 1970.), a corporation's ONLY
responsibility is to increase profit by any means fair or foul, and
Devil take the hindmost.
Couple that with a fundamental misrepresentation of the nature of Adam
Smith's "Free Market" by those same corporate apologists and you have
the foundation for the the massive fraud that is the heart, the
fundamental mission, of any modern multinational corporation.
Their sole purpose for existing is to achieve an imbalance in the so
called "free market" that allows the corporation to take everything
and give nothing in return. That we customers receive anything at all
in the transaction is due only to their inability to achieve the
perfection of their aims.
Given the state of affairs that corporations have no responsibility to
act ethically in dealing with their customers, on what basis do you
suggest we, the customers, are obliged to give them any more respect
than they afford us?
A little balancing of the scales of justice is in order I think.
No corporation that consistently cheats it's customers will survive. To
do that you need a gun and the unrestricted will to use it. Otherwise
customers will flee to another haven. Free markets are free, and the
worst offenses happen in the markets that are most controlled.
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