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Only when my audience can be swayed by reason and prudence.  You have convinced me to give up, though.  So the guys should throw you a party or something.

When you were busy being offended, you completely missed the point.  FFS, you guys are special.

You missed the point. You cited my post as anecdotal. I responded in kind. I probably know at least 5000 business owners - most of which are really good people.

Community involvement and public responsibility are extremely important at my very large computer manufacturing corporation.  It starts at the top with the owner/founder.  I'm proud of the work we do.  The company matches up to $10,000 per year of charitable contributions per employee.  And the company allows, provides for, and in many ways expects, employee volunteerism in their local communities.

I know not all large corporations are like the one I work for.  But there are others.  And the original assertion was that ALL large companies trade ethics for profits EVERY time, and that's simply and demonstrably not true.

Speaking from my 34 years in corporate America at publicly traded companies, and my one on one work with virtually several thousand small businesses, this post right here is right on the money.

Huge companies are run by individuals.  Individuals in general have varying views of what is ethical.  If some CEO makes a decision that favors profits but shorts YOUR idea of ethics, he is only being unethical in YOUR eyes.  In HIS eyes, he's perhaps being ethical.

Let's say a CEO decides to lay people off.  Is that ethical?  It's obviously situational, and it's bad for those laid off.  On the other hand, keeping people on when it hurts the company is also unethical and could end up hurting many more people.

Imagine the CEO of Exxon becomes a climate change devotee and decides to divest their entire fossil fuel business.  Maybe that is ethical (probably not in reality), it would also end up hurting a lot of employees and shareholders.

Or take where I worked, they have had chances to enter the alcohol business but never did, ostensibly for "ethics" (or PR more likely).  They probably could have made more money for shareholders and grown the business and hired more people.  Is that choice ethical or not?

Ethics is in the eye of the beholder.  

Also- who decides what is “ ethical” in today’s politically charged, cancel culture world?

Additionally- the amount of energy, resources, research and planning that exists today in corporate America, that is focused on community support and employee engagement- is exponentially greater than at any time in our history.  Organizations know:

Long term sustainability is not possible without engaged, relatively happy employees. 

And

Corporations and businesses are the backbone of the communities the serve, and will be quickly shunned by employees and clients for non performance in this area.  

The Private Sector is where the folks in need get the most help.  Food drives, medical drives, financial aid, gifts and endowments- it is off the charts. 

That is why so many of these larger corporations and even medium-size ones have community engagement officers, employee engagement officers, diversity and inclusion officers, employee resource groups for minorities, women, LGBTQ etc.

For those on this thread posing the lack of ethics in corporate America you probably need to educate yourself or stop being brainwashed

This is hilarious - you're expecting major corporations' ugly decisions to just be out in the open for all of us to see.