Likewise, do you spend more money with companies who at least have the appearance of caring about their employees and the public at large?

"and let the consumers directly decide which businesses live and die." That's exactly what I'm talking about though.
That's the beauty of REAL capitalism m8. :) True free market capitalism is just that, where it specifically is done for the sake of the consumer. Not to say employees should be slaves but the opposite, as they should be encouraged to be full fledged proud advocates of their workplace complete with good stock options and training to easily move up if desired. On a wide scale, we don't have that anywhere in the world, so therefore, the world economy is bound to collapse because it then doesn't work.
Well... sure I guess, except that huge numbers of companies don't do that. Which is why I'm asking this question.
Oh I understand that completely. If it were up to me, many corporate executive would need to start feeling for their lives, because as I see it, not just their greed but sheer innovative laziness has lead to plenty of homelessness and death, therefore, I'd consider putting them on trial for murder and executed if needed. Having such enormous bonuses for literal terrible jobs they've done is ridiculous and like many, I'd like it stopped, as that is not real capitalism at all.
It's not futile. I know it seems hopeless sometimes but what you just wrote is not the way companies think-- if one of a bigger company's smaller subsidiaries isn't making money, or isn't making enough for them to keep them, they will sell them off or close them down. Chipping away at the smaller ones still hurts the bigger ones, just not as much as it should. But it's still something.
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What's Your Opinion? Sign Up Now!Um... isn't there a difference between people bashing a company for something that they SHOULD be bashed for, as opposed to people bashing a company for something that they SHOULDN'T be bashing them for? Why are you pretending like all bashing is magically created equal?
because I'm tired of people's negativity and cancel culture. bashing is bashing, saying "I wouldn't recommend this company because they underpay their workers" is different.
That... is breathtakingly untrue and one of the stupidest things I've ever seen someone say.
eh? so you'd prefer a poor quality product with happy employees? no one will buy it, they won't be paid lol
Uh... no, I would prefer a high-quality product or service, with happy customers, by a company that isn't moral or economic dog shit. You've created a false dichotomy by suggesting that we can't have both.
it's what we want them to be but when the moneys dry and youve got a funnel effect on growth, vacancies, promotions, innovation.. it becomes desperate. Even my career has this issue and they are services that save peoples lives.
... What? What's "desperate?" Amazon and Wal-Mart and Jimmy Johns and Hobby Lobby and whoever else-- multinational billion dollar companies-- are "desperate," to you?
they just revoked their commitment to ''fair trade'' meaning the farmers that grow your coffee will be sent into povery once more but dont worry, they promised to plant a few trees instead. plus they have been shown to use third party contractors in africa that employ child labour and i now learn they have been training monkies by beating them and keeping them in horrible conditions in the east so that they will climb trees to get coconuts
im sugar free so dont eat candy at all but check labels in future and you will see that they produce everything from dog food to tinned beans... not just coffee and chocolate
amazon is a good call byt the way... not only do they evade taxes and treat workers like shit, all this talk of going green is nonesence. last year the carbon footprint of amazon was greater than that of norway
Not recently these days, I tend to stick with companies I already trust spending with.
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