Originally Posted by
Blacksheep
The reality of it is we are all going to die, nobody gets out alive. :wink: no point in doing the chicken little routine.
Can you dig it ?
Totally! I can. I'm not afraid to die but I'm sure as hell not going to die because some greedy bastard can't spare to invest a tiny amount of his fortune to making his employees life safer and more equitable.
If I'm an American businessman is it more beneficial to me to move my company to China and pay workers cents on the dollar versus paying an American worker a fair wage with benefits? Of course it is! does it make it right? of course it doesn't.
Does capitalism stand for nothing other than the ability to invest the least amount of money, do whatever I want to the environment and sell my product for the highest margin possible? regardless of the social economic or environmental impacts?
Most American businesses look only to the near future, it all about profit margins, damn peoples safety or lively hoods. As long as we are making optimal profits we are doing good, even if that means moving jobs over seas and turning America into a service economy. That's precisely why American trucking companies would love to hire lots of Mexican workers, because they know they will work for far less, far longer with far less complaint and they will line up to do it.
Case in point is, it's more profitable for me to fry your foods in clearly unhealthy trans fat oils because the food tastes better and to boot it's cheaper. Same goes for other things. They put tons and tons of salt in our food because they know it works on the same brain receptors as does sugar making the eater happy due to the higher it causes in the brain. It's clearly unhealthy for us and the food companies know that but it's all in the name of profit.
For example, does cherry jello have to have artificial food coloring in it? No, but it makes it more apealing, despite the fact there is probable evidence the stuff is harmful and who are the people that are eating this stuff? that's right, kids! The people it threatens to harm the most.
This isn't about taking away peoples freedom to choose, it about being a responsible business and offering real choices are don't harm people simply in order to make short term profits.
I'm sorry for rambling. I know this seems off topic but that is what I was getting at. I'm not against free choice or capitalism, I just believe there are ways to make a profit give people what they want and not profit at their expense.
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