Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoCandy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids in Ghana, CBS News investigation findswww.cbsnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square138fedilinkarrow-up1893arrow-down17
arrow-up1886arrow-down1external-linkCandy company Mars uses cocoa harvested by kids in Ghana, CBS News investigation findswww.cbsnews.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square138fedilink
minus-squarewhaleross@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down2·9 months agoWhy is it so fucking hard for company executives to just be a decent human being? Damn.
minus-squareOtakuAltair@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·edit-29 months agoBecause Capitalism rewards greed and exploitative behaviour. Only natural for those kinds of people to rise to the top under this system. If you want change, join/organize protests, unions, and Socialist movements.
minus-squareelectrogamerman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoIt is not only in benefit of those people, but also of the countries they live in, and that’s why capitalism rewards exploitative behavior.
minus-squarelolcatnip@reddthat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·9 months agoAnd why is it so hard to prosecute them when they’re not?
minus-squareOtakuAltair@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoOrganize/join protests and unions if you don’t like it. It’s the only to make the ruling class do something in a class based society.
minus-squareCosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·9 months ago Why is it so fucking hard for company executives to just be a decent human being? The ‘piss you off’ hard truth? Because we enable it. We protect it. We allow it. We enshrine their rights in corporation laws to do the things they want to do, put profits above people. They are not policed, instead they are rewarded by paying those people who would police them not to do so. As a society, we allow this to happen. So then, what kind of people would gravitate to running a corporation, under those conditions? Potential unlimited power, with potential no oversight? Fuck, I’m pissed just writing this.
minus-squareOtakuAltair@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 months agoB-but publicly owned regulated companies is Socialism
Why is it so fucking hard for company executives to just be a decent human being? Damn.
Because Capitalism rewards greed and exploitative behaviour. Only natural for those kinds of people to rise to the top under this system.
If you want change, join/organize protests, unions, and Socialist movements.
It is not only in benefit of those people, but also of the countries they live in, and that’s why capitalism rewards exploitative behavior.
And why is it so hard to prosecute them when they’re not?
They make the rules.
Organize/join protests and unions if you don’t like it. It’s the only to make the ruling class do something in a class based society.
The ‘piss you off’ hard truth?
Because we enable it. We protect it. We allow it.
We enshrine their rights in corporation laws to do the things they want to do, put profits above people.
They are not policed, instead they are rewarded by paying those people who would police them not to do so.
As a society, we allow this to happen.
So then, what kind of people would gravitate to running a corporation, under those conditions? Potential unlimited power, with potential no oversight?
Fuck, I’m pissed just writing this.
B-but publicly owned regulated companies is Socialism