True, many companies long steered clear of contentious issues. But it wasn’t just “good business.” It was good business based on sound morality: the recognition that customers and employees of, say, a burger chain, held a wide variety of views but were united in their dedication to delicious meals, over which they may differ civilly.
Gathering together for shared purposes, as grand as beating Hitler or as trivial as collecting stamps, is vital to our full humanity. And while in some sense it may be unfortunate that we eat bread through the sweat of our brows, how we then make it more than just hardtack chewed in bleak solitude is not some trivial distraction from the real business of reading poetry.
It’s curious since the left was long so wary of business in politics as to embrace conspiracy theories about corporate influence on everything from the 1973 coup in Chile to climate change and election finance. But suddenly when it’s going their way, they’re jubilant. And of course there always were exceptions to neutral and counter-cultural marketing on great moral issues.
A highly politicized society puts companies in a cleft stick. The New York Times recently ran an article with the headline, Global Brands Find It Hard to Untangle Themselves From Xinjiang Cotton, and the deck: “Under pressure to renounce cotton harvested in a Chinese region marked by gruesome repression, they face a backlash from nationalist Chinese consumers.” When in doubt, do the right thing.
a dishonest article talking about morals. lol. its not about voter ids. its about the Georgia legistators being able to throw out any results they don't like. your morals didn't stop you from conveniently leaving that out of the article. businesses have every right to be ..
Need ID to buy beer , need ID to board a plane , need ID for traffic stops etc , need It for banking , list goes on. But everyone is up in arms for voting ID ?
“And if voting fraud is rare in America, it only makes Georgia’s law unnecessary, not harmful or evil.” You cannot be serious! It reveals that the true purpose of the bill is not voter fraud but the suppression of voting by certain groups of people that tend to not vote GOP.