To claim that there is something inherently evil about corporations is just silly.
Not evil. "Evil" is reserved for human beings. Just totally amoral, in the sense of being unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something. When a corporation does something destructive it is no more "evil" than a piano that falls on top of a child and kills it is being "evil".
So no, the fact that a corporation would happily put mercury into baby formula if it meant additional profit (if it knew it could get away with it) is not "evil".
Believe it or not, but there actually are corporations run by individuals who care about running the business in an ethical manner.
If it's in the Fortune 500, I'm going to have to go ahead and ask for some citation of this. I have no doubt that there are some closely held for-profit corporations that are family run and care about their communities, but those are exceptional. Among publicly-held for-profit corporations, there are no exceptions. They are amoral by definition, which means "lacking a moral sense" which means yes, if they can move the share price up 5 cents by killing grandma, you betcha, by golly, grandma's gonna die, albeit in the most economical way possible.
But the US Supreme Court in the Citizen United case that allows unlimited campaign funding and lobbying by corporations, the Court declared 5-4 that corporations are like persons and have the same freedom of speech rights as individuals. Thus the US Supreme Court believes that corporations can be "evil". Ohhh... and I know a few "evil" corporations but I wont name any names like Halliburton, Citigroup, and the Bankster Brotherhood....
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This maybe the smartest move microsoft made in the last 15 years
Well that depends on the success of Windows 8 in the Fall. But clearly Microsoft has gone All-in like Google and Apple before on controlling OS+Hardware+Software Apps - see here http://takethe5th.com/wp/2012_06/3-os-vendors-are-all-in-on-consumer-computing-sweepstakes/.
Not evil. "Evil" is reserved for human beings. Just totally amoral, in the sense of being unconcerned with the rightness or wrongness of something. When a corporation does something destructive it is no more "evil" than a piano that falls on top of a child and kills it is being "evil".
So no, the fact that a corporation would happily put mercury into baby formula if it meant additional profit (if it knew it could get away with it) is not "evil".
If it's in the Fortune 500, I'm going to have to go ahead and ask for some citation of this. I have no doubt that there are some closely held for-profit corporations that are family run and care about their communities, but those are exceptional. Among publicly-held for-profit corporations, there are no exceptions. They are amoral by definition, which means "lacking a moral sense" which means yes, if they can move the share price up 5 cents by killing grandma, you betcha, by golly, grandma's gonna die, albeit in the most economical way possible.
But the US Supreme Court in the Citizen United case that allows unlimited campaign funding and lobbying by corporations, the Court declared 5-4 that corporations are like persons and have the same freedom of speech rights as individuals. Thus the US Supreme Court believes that corporations can be "evil". Ohhh ... and I know a few "evil" corporations but I wont name any names like Halliburton, Citigroup, and the Bankster Brotherhood....