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> If you think businesses should be held to a higher ethical standard than they are currently, get active with local or even national politics. Start a letter writing campaign to your elected officials. Do something productive.

I would say the productive thing to do would be to start your own business that holds itself to a higher ethical standard, and then out-compete the other businesses.

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Sadly sometimes I think having lower ethical standards gives an edge during competition.

I mean, not to put too fine a point on it, but this is true and is the weakest point of capitalism.

> sometimes I think having lower ethical standards gives an edge during competition

Which means people aren't willing to enforce higher ethical standards as customers. So is the problem the companies, or the customers?

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