re: #445 WindUpBird

I think of corporations as like wild animals. They should be in zoos, so that we may benefit from them under controlled conditions. ;-)

They’re not evil, they’re large groups of people that act in self-interest. it’s like calling the weather evil. They are what they are, and there must be pressure on them from government to force them to act in explicitly ethical ways. (like say, not poisoning groundwater or manipulating energy markets)

Obviously liberal rhetoric gets hairy and inflammatory about this, but it’s like, we’re talking about people! Lots of people acting in concert to make money can do terrible things, not because they’re evil, but because they’re all doing a thing which has bad consequences.

So, it’s ok if you shop at Walmart as long as you have the right understanding that not all these people working there are evil?