So many times I have railed against corporations and their masters. So many times.<\/p>\n
I could rail every day, if I wanted to<\/a>. Sometimes I could rail twice a day. <\/a><\/p>\n Why? Simple. Because corporations are, by definition, amoral. They are governed by one motive only: making a profit.<\/p>\n I wrote “making a profit” without pejorative. That’s the point of business, isn’t it? It isn’t by itself unethical. But in seeking profit, a company is more or less bound to look for holes in government regulations, or to attempt to buy politicians’ promise to dismantle the regulations entirely.<\/p>\n No corporation is bound by ethical rules to do good for humanity.<\/p>\n So when a corporation does<\/em> something good for humanity, without being forced into it by lawsuits or government, I who rail must rave.<\/p>\n And so I will, about Whirlpool. Read this story I picked up from DailyKos which picked it up from The Atlantic’s CityLab,<\/a> and then–if you’re an investor and want to support a Good Corporation (and one which, by the way, offers a nice dividend to shareholders)–get into whatever research function your brokerage company provides, and look up WHR. As of yesterday, it was selling at around $182.<\/p>\n (By the way, this is how we 99 percenters can exploit<\/em> Wall Street: with very little money, any of us can set up a brokerage account and buy a few shares of a company we want to support, like Whirlpool, or a company we want to challenge. Want even more clout? Gather a like-minded group of friends and set up an investment unit. Fight Wall Street by infiltrating it.)<\/p>\n Here’s the story about Whirlpool: Source, DailyKos: St. Louis school sees 90% of their students’ attendance increase because of washing machines<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So many times I have railed against corporations and their masters. So many times. I could rail every day, if I wanted to. Sometimes I could rail twice a day. Why? Simple. Because corporations are, by definition, amoral. They are … Continue reading