Hopefully I’ve worded the question right.
I was once told (I could never verify if it was true) that a crocs company once almost went bankrupt after they made their crocs practically indestructible. Whilst the story was most likely bullshit, it makes me wonder: if a company can make a product that is practically indestructible, is it ethical for them not to make them indestructible, so people will buy more from them?
The way I look at it is, on one hand, I feel like they should make products to the highest quality if they can so that the consumer has to spend less money and that less is wasted, but at the same time if it leads to the company going bankrupt, what of the workers and their families? So I can’t decide, what do you think?
Companies are not people. They have no ethics. The only thing that keeps them in check is regulation and market forces.
People make the decisions at companies and those people should be held accountable for their lack of ethics.
Yes, I feel we are making the same point. A company is neither ethical or not. The people who work there are.
It’s semantics, or a pointless distinction. Companies are composed of the people working there. If those people are doing unethical things then the company is doing unethical things and is therefore unethical.
yes