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1. onetho+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-02-09 04:55:45
- Some environmental metrics (could be solved by pricing environmental harm)

- Ethical Metrics (could be solved by allowing corporations, directors, boards to face similar punishments to humans committing crime).

– Something that measured employee treatment.

Profit is such a shitty motive... it's effective, but still shitty.

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2. corbul+pt[view] [source] 2023-02-09 09:51:54
>>onetho+(OP)
Profit is ethical in abstract if you're intelligent and can see how reputation is valuable. You will have a hard time getting people to buy your product if people hate you. We're not in the state we're in because of profit motive.

It's the short sightedness that causes the most unethical behavior from the top down. 10-Qs... a man considered changing that timeline to help fix that problem but he was ostracized. Maybe one day la naranja will return.

I would be interested to see what an ethics motive looks like that gets people out of the bed in the morning to do a job they barely care about.

3. swexbe+Rx[view] [source] 2023-02-09 10:34:18
>>onetho+(OP)
The purpose of the government is to legislate in order to align those kinds of goals with profit. Ex. taxes on emissions, fines for human rights abuses etc. This is what Adam Smith meant when he wrote about the invisible hand.
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