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<blockquote data-quote="spinjammer" data-source="post: 109383" data-attributes="member: 687">Something I find curious is the &quot;the companies rip me off, and I don't care if they lose money&quot; stance. A lot of people seem to think that companies are large abstract entities, that exist outside their (the people's) own system and their (the company's) only effect on society as a whole is to rip off customers and make money. While the latter is certainly true with a lot of companies (lawyer firms anyone? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />), they are still part of our society. And they provide work for you and me. The company consists of people. So who is gonna suffer if a company loses? The company? Not really. As a company is not a person (real person) it can't suffer. The losers are the employees. And guess what, they are people like you and me. So for all people out there who think they are hurting a big bad business monster: you don't - you only hurt people and in a more subtile way, yourself.&nbsp;It's still hard to draw a clear line. My personal line is this: when I am doing something, that I am not really sure about (affecting society), I ask myself what would happen if everybody does it. Normally that makes my mind up. (This logic does not always win out, however.)But brighten up lads, until now, society survived despite of thieves, pirates and big bad monster businesses.Spinjammer</blockquote>

[QUOTE="spinjammer, post: 109383, member: 687"] Something I find curious is the "the companies rip me off, and I don't care if they lose money" stance. A lot of people seem to think that companies are large abstract entities, that exist outside their (the people's) own system and their (the company's) only effect on society as a whole is to rip off customers and make money. While the latter is certainly true with a lot of companies (lawyer firms anyone? ;)), they are still part of our society. And they provide work for you and me. The company consists of people. So who is gonna suffer if a company loses? The company? Not really. As a company is not a person (real person) it can't suffer. The losers are the employees. And guess what, they are people like you and me. So for all people out there who think they are hurting a big bad business monster: you don't - you only hurt people and in a more subtile way, yourself. It's still hard to draw a clear line. My personal line is this: when I am doing something, that I am not really sure about (affecting society), I ask myself what would happen if everybody does it. Normally that makes my mind up. (This logic does not always win out, however.) But brighten up lads, until now, society survived despite of thieves, pirates and big bad monster businesses. Spinjammer [/QUOTE]

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