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Well hell.

I like your textbook, political corporate-speak response, but the truth in real time follows a different path once we get beyond "make as much money as possible." A lot of what you itemize is public relations dressing, a penny spent for a dollar made.

Heard of the Exxon Valdez? There's corporate responsibility at it's finest. Corporate profit without social conscience. And it was like that because they could make it that way. Who do you think worked so hard on the lobby front to relax environmental and public safety protections in the first place? And following their failure, worked so hard to weasel out of their liability? For who, the community? Follow laws you say? Who do you think engineered those laws? If you think for a second that corporations and industries are good citizens by choice, or that they aren't working tirelessly to relax oversight of their greed, then ... well ... I know you're not that naive.

Corporations wouldn't have to so self-conscious of their images if they weren't always playing in the dirt. Maybe it was Churchill who said capitalism may suck, but it's a damn sight better than the alternative. Capitalism isn't all bad, but this is the dark side that we deal with. Denying it doesn't make things better.

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