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Re: OT: Yahoo- apparently now an extension of the Chinese govt secret
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Waters)
Thu Sep 8 04:20:16 2005
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 09:19:46 +0100
In-Reply-To: <200509080209.j8829dm3010480@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
From: Simon Waters <simonw@zynet.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thursday 08 Sep 2005 3:09 am, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
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> And when the corporate executives have a legal and moral obligation to
> generate income for the stockholders (barring a stockholder's resolution
> or other similar instrument dictating otherwise), what is one to do when
> "vast profits" and "vast evil" lie in the same direction?
Moralities aren't black and white, generating profits falls behind other le=
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and moral obligations that apply to everyone.
> Even Google, with it's "Don't Be Evil" policy
Any influence Google's "Don't be Evil" policy had vanished the day it was=20
floated AFAICT.
Where profits are put before morals that is called greed. Sure the=20
stockmarkets allow people to put greedy people in charge of their money, bu=
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be aware what goes around, comes around.
HG Wells referred to people investing in the stockmarket as a purely financ=
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endevour for short term profits as "the irresponsibly wealthy" as far back =
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1902. Plus =E7a change.
