On Saturday, March 31, 2012 12:39:23 PM UTC+2, fabrizio.giudici wrote: > > 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. > > >
This is exactly right - the reason apple is releasing all these reports and trying to browbeat foxconn into actually complying with the anti-labour-abuse terms that are part of the contract between apple and foxconn, is not because apple all of a sudden grew a moral compass. Business are legally obligated not to have one, in that their moral compass is legally defined as being: "Maximize value for shareholders". The reason they are doing it, is because the media and their customers are in effect holding their feet to the fire. Apple is simply trying to maximize value for shareholders, and they are doing it because the brand damage caused by bad news from china is larger than the money saved by ignoring these issues. Therefore: No, it is silly to ascribe some sort of Zorg-esque evilness to any one company, and, no, it is silly to dismiss complaints about a company's behaviour by saying that that's simply 'capitalism'. The system is working when a company changes to address something that's gotten a lot of hullabaloo in the media and elsewhere. Whether or not this is a good system is a topic for another day, of course. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/javaposse/-/nkHK8r3Q00kJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
