I remember struggling with the idea that all companies care more about the bottom line than anything else. People are good and care about good things. How can companies who are made of people always cause problems? There must be at least one good company out there, right?

It's only after I spent some time in the world that I figured out that money really messes with things. It pressures companies to do whatever they can get away with. It separates the people who run the companies from the bad outcomes that company creates.

And at the end of the day everyone needs to make a choice. Live and participate in a system that causes problems, or die. I chose to live and I don't blame anyone else for choosing to live.

[–] sturger@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

People are good and care about good things.

We have trouble understanding what’s going on because the average person can’t comprehend the levels of greed that modern Wall St capitalism selects for.
Just like the average person cannot comprehend a million years, the average person can’t appreciate the level of avarice some of our rich and powerful operate at. Only a few of us have interacted with people that broken.
There a tons of good people and good businesses out there. They are currently victims to levels of avarice we can’t bring ourselves to admit exists.

[–] thebardingreen@lemmy.starlightkel.xyz 6 points 7 hours ago

The way laws and bylaws describe the jobs of CEOs and CFOs, the most qualified people to do those jobs are sociopaths. Empathy is practically a disqualifying personality trait.

[–] declaredreprimand@piefed.social 15 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Companies, especially larger ones, abstract away human responsibility and ethics from the decision-making process, making it easier for people to do bad things.

“We do this for the company!”

Plus, an individual’s ability to live being tied to the continued success of said company doesn’t help things either.

“If I speak out, I’m not a ‘team player’. And those people get fired.”

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 points 5 hours ago

There's also diffusing responsibility across the organization. It's easy to achieve unethical things, when the individual's part of the job hardly seems "bad" at all.

[–] baronofclubs@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

At least in the US, companies have a legal fiduciary duty to protect their investors interests above all else.

[–] ijhoo@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 hours ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_v._Ford_Motor_Co.

[–] porksnort@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 hours ago

The love of money is the root of all evil.

Remember that one time Jesus lost his cool? He made a whip and went H.A.M. on some crypto bros in the temple.

So yeah….