• spauldo@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

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

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        1 year ago

        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?

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          1 year ago

          Yes, what you’re describing is called the “Social Structure of Accumulation” in Political Economic theory.