The real question would be why anyone cares about empty mission statements like this anyway?
Parsing them for meaning is nearly as useful as parsing your morning bowel movement to predict your day.
Parsing them for meaning is nearly as useful as parsing your morning bowel movement to predict your day.
Cynical takes like yours are accurate in the descriptive sense. They are useful for describing and predicting outcomes. Ideals are typically prescriptive. They call us to improve upon what is. The two concepts are not incompatible, but for many they are seemingly contradictory.
People care because they have ideals. Perhaps they confuse the two concepts. Perhaps their expectations are too idealistic.
People have ideals, companies do not. The people employed by those companies have ideals but its beyond foolish to think that those ideals would be prioritized over profit.
Businesses don't have a conscience, people do, but that doesn't mean that the business will do the right thing. Sure, the ideals of the person and the ones the company reports can match up, but it's only through luck and not out of a sense of the greater good.