Corporations are amoral at best, deeply immoral at worst.
by
pwoxby
08/15/2009, 9:09 PM #
Anybody who has not worked for a large corporation cannot appreciate how corrupting a corporate culture can be. The guiding principle is "go along to get along" and if your ethical standards cause you to balk at this, there is always someone who will show you the door.
At their best, large corporations are amoral. By their very nature, they can't turn human values like honesty, fairness and justice into business practice. But at their worst, large corporations are deeply immoral. The vacuum left by the absence of honesty, fairness and justice too often gets filled with a corrupting lust for money, power and status.
The Supreme Court decision in 1886 granting legal "personhood" to corporations was a dreadful mistake. <link> The Supreme Court is now considering whether the ban on direct corporate donations to political campaigns violates the Constitution. If the ban is struck down, it will be the death knell for our already sick and dying democracy. It will mark the triumph of the evil of corporatism in America.
