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Caring big business or a wolf in sheep’s clothing? : Comments
By Dayna Simpson, published 10/1/2005Dayna Simpson argues that corporate philanthropy must not be allowed to become an opportunistic branding opportunity.
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Governments are responsible for the state of worker's lives in a capitalist system??? You're only kidding yourselves here.
It is not feasible to say governments can protect their workers from low wages and exploitative working conditions. Governments are desperate to attract foreign investment, and this investment is usually reliant on cheap labour and less than rigorous environmental and safety regulations, amongst other things. It would take every govt. in the world to draw a bottome line on wages and say, no, we shall not settle for less.
Companies resist this vigorously.
You seem to have no idea how free trade works in the favour of companies, and that companies have lobbied countries like the U.S, for many years to legislate trade agreements like the defunct MAI agreement, now the Free Trade Agreement. Governemts policing companies!!!
Come on, they're the lapdogs of multi-national corporations for years.
It's truly laughable the way you have dismissed open-thinking people's opinions here, when your thinking is a left-over from the years when most of us believed everything that governments, companies and doctors told us. It's no wonder you can't hear the truths of others. You probably believed it when they told you DDT was harmless, or the tobacco companies that claim smoking doesn't cause health problems.
Go back to the delightful, rose-coloured world that you perceive to be true, bozzie and seeker.
"Me thinks they doth protest too much"