On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 06:15:59 +0200, Cédric Beust ♔ <[email protected]>
wrote:
After Steve Jobs passed away, I predicted we would start seeing a new,
more
gentle and more humane Apple. I think this is yet another indication of
this.
Here is another quick prediction: in the next twelve months, Apple will
start donating to charities again (Jobs killed all charity donations when
he rejoined Apple in 1997).
I don't know about Apple's future, but what I don't get is "gentle" vs
"non gentle" corporates. Corporates are made to make money and their
primary moral obligations are towards their stakeholders. Period (that's
why I've always considered Google's "Don't be evil" an intolerable pulling
of my and others' legs). This means that they know about problems with
their providers, such as for Apple with their chinese providers, and tend
to ignore that. So, in this respect Rakesh is right. But it's irrelevant.
What makes the difference is the context where corporates operate: the
laws they're subjected to, the public opinion, free speech, etc... The
typical qualities of liberal democracies (we're lazily referring them as
"western countries", but fortunately they are more spread than the
geographic term "west" means). In countries where there's no or limited
free speech, thus a misinformed public opinion, corporates will do
whatever they want. That's why I'm always puzzled when I hear blaming of
"western / liberal democratic" countries as whether the problem was due to
them: as a matter of a fact, they are the only countries where the problem
is faced with.
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