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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sure, but that's how business works when you're as big a company as Microsoft. And he was good at it.

I never said he was a nice guy, only that he was good at business.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Choosing to play is still immoral even if that's how the game works.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I never said he was moral, either.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So I agree that's how it works with businesses under Anglo-Saxon style capitalism, but I disagree with that's how it works across the world with large companies. There are large multinational corporations that are ethical. Not as successful in profitability as Microsoft, but they are more successful ethically and better for society.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Quite possibly. I wouldn't know. Either way, Microsoft is an American company and plays by (or subverts, or writes) American rules.

Money is power. Get enough of either and you get corruption. Some people fight the system, some people learn to profit off it. If it doesn't work that way in other parts of the world, then it's because their systems work differently than ours.

Edit: quite possibly, not quit possibly. I'm a touch typist. I type every day. So why does my typing get worse with age?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

Yes, what you're describing is called the "Social Structure of Accumulation" in Political Economic theory.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd argue that American and some Western European companies are much more ethical than African child labor mines, Chaebol, and Zaibatsu

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

I'd argue that too. Empirically en aggregate though.