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Insatiable Greed Has Predictably Become Morally Hopeless & With Irresistible Deadly Sting [1]
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Date: 2025-07-28
There must be a point at which corporate greed thus practice will end up hurting big business’s own monetary interests. But, maybe the unlimited-profit objective/nature is somehow irresistible: It brings to mind the allegorical fox stung by the instinct-abiding scorpion while ferrying it across the river, leaving both to drown.
I sometimes picture a bunch of morbidly and self-mortally greedy CEOs knowing for a fact that their big businesses will inevitably, if not imminently, collapse due to a great lack of consumers who can afford those big businesses’ products (perhaps including some would-be consumers who’d lost their jobs to employer-profit-maximizing AI or other forms of automation). Yet, the CEOs will nonetheless continue ardently politically supporting (via covert lobbying of governments, of course) the very economic system, especially its below-poverty-line minimum wage, that's basically going to ruin their big businesses.
Perhaps those CEOs cannot help themselves, and they actually realize they NEED an intervention by a truly-independent body/entity completely untouchable by the morally- and/or ethically-corrupt corporate lobbyists: ‘We scorpions simply cannot help ourselves. We need outside, independent intervention, but we'll still resist it! It's in our nature.’
Can such insatiable-human/corporate-greed nature really be that morally hopeless, indeed pathetic?
The more they make, all the more they want — nay, need! — to make next quarterly. It’s never enough, yet the corporate news-media, which make up virtually all of Western mainstream news media, will implicitly or explicitly celebrate their successful greed [a.k.a. ‘stock market gains’].
And, of course, corporate officers will shrug their shoulders and say their job is to protect shareholders’ bottom-line interests. The shareholders in turn will also shrug their shoulders while defensively stating they just collect the dividends and that the big bosses are the ones to make the moral and ethical decisions.
With such insatiable greed, already very profitable big businesses will always need to become all the more profitable, even if much human suffering results. It really does seem there's little or no accountability when huge profit is involved; nor can there be a sufficiently guilty conscience if the malpractice is continued, business as usual. ‘We are a capitalist nation, after all,’ again the morally lame self-justification will go.
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