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Comment on YSK that despite being outside of US jurisdiction, Lego has dropped diversity and inclusion terminology from its annual report

lordnikon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Everyone needs to remember regardless where they are based out of a multinational corporation is just that multinational. So they will do what they have to do to curry favor with a powerful government for corporate kick backs.

Plus regardless of how wrong it is the the people of the United States told the world what they want when the majority elected these clowns not only by the electrical college but also the popular vote. So companies are going to respond to what they perceive is what their markets want.

I hate it as much as the next human with even a little empathy but it’s how the world works right now. Just like with countries, companies don’t have morals they have interests. So there is no good or bad companies only whats in their interest at the moment.

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crimsonpoodle@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
The electrical college is truly a shocking way to run a country in the 21st century.

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- slaughterhouse@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Good place to study electrical engineering though.
  
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  - mostNONheinous@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Didn’t John Goodman run that school at Greendale?
    
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kautau@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

So there is no good or bad companies only whats in their interest at the moment.

That’s absolutely not true. Just because a company doesn’t “have morals” doesn’t mean a company isn’t immoral. No different than a psychopath not having morals, but us as society being able to judge them for that. You, as a consumer, have a choice on companies you interact with (somewhat, of course). Companies generally seek profit, so yes, capitalism is at fault it the core. But there are companies like:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeStraw

vs

en.wikipedia.org/…/Stanley_(drinkware_company)

Which one is more ethical?

These companies could have broken ties:

en.wikipedia.org/…/Business_collaboration_with_Na…

That being said there’s currently a pretty strong rise globally in support for nationalism / fascism / racism / anti-science / religious domination of government and media / genocide. So even companies that seem more local can immediately change their culture to adopt to a shift in power, belief, etc.

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- lordnikon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Just because interests align with the wellbeing of the public doesnt make a company moral. You back a few years ago and Tesla started by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning to push Electric cars and battery tech and thus would get us off fossil fuels. We all for the most part think of that as a good thing and look at them now.
  
  The problem is companies by design eventually get big enough that the people in them don’t truly care of the mission of the company. Most people do what they need to do to keep their job and when you have enough people doing that in the micro where they dont see it as immoral, but it adds up at the maco to some really immoral stuff.
  
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scarabic@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
It could be currying favor with Trump. However I also think about of companies were only doing this inclusion stuff in the first place behavior it was fashionable or assumed to be a good thing. With that removed, they’re just dropping the pretense.

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