Comments on: Corporate obligation to shareholders http://www.pixelmonkey.org/2005/11/05/corporate-obligation-to-shareholders?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=corporate-obligation-to-shareholders Andrew Montalenti's Blog Sun, 09 Jun 2013 21:38:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Mike http://www.pixelmonkey.org/2005/11/05/corporate-obligation-to-shareholders/comment-page-1#comment-80406 Mike Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:23:24 +0000 http://www.pixelmonkey.org/2005/11/05/corporate-obligation-to-shareholders/#comment-80406 I don’t fully understand the context of this, however, I just wanted to respond to one quote.

This seems a bit odd:

“The shirt is already made. The abuse was already done. My buying the shirt doesn’t actually abuse workers. I am just buying a shirt. I need a shirt, its price is right, I’m buying it.”

By buying the shirt, you enable the company to continue its unethical practices, thereby ensuring the continued abuse of workers. However small a part of the process your decision is still a part. The timing of the manufacture of the actual shirt you buy doesn’t exonerate you from responsibility of what can be reasonably assumed to be the resulting consequences. This seems obvious to me.

peace,

Mike

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