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If you look at other posts by this user, they’re convinced Apple has real values beyond profit. I don’t think it does. Values are a marketing tool.

If it was legal and they could profit $300M by killing thousands of people they would do it.

Go read about the nervous systems of people failing from the solvents they use the clean the phone screens on the assembly lines. You think Tim Cook is up at night worrying about these people? He’s not.

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It’s hyperbole to suggest that many people at any company would say “yes, let’s kill thousands of people to increase profits 1%”.

Instead they would say “let’s use this contractor, they’re 1% cheaper” never considering that the difference is made up from decreased safety that kills people.

Society only tends to equate these two kinds of cases when action causes very direct harm.

I believe they would do it with full knowledge, and when they don’t have full knowledge that’s also intentional. They cultivate plausible deniability for these things they “coincidentally” profit from.

Which is precisely my point with this topic and the unions. Finally for once we see the real ethos.

There’s room to have faith in the executives of these megacorporations, I don’t.

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