Beating your meat. A hacking story.

[Brian37]

Boru, seriously, 

I could say that Evolution is fact and just because I stated that fact, you'd find some excuse to disagree.

The bottom up fight can and does work, but the easier path is when those in power accept their responsibility. As a small guy, I am not a CEO, as a small guy, I am not Jeff Bezos. 

I am right now doing my part by pointing that out. No, it isn't much, but even that collectively does help.

They only thing that is going to change corporate behaviour is money. As long as people keep buying harmful products at the same or increasing rates, corporations will continue to aggressively market and sell those products. The fact that you and billions like you are doing fuckall to reduce your use of these products IS the problem.

Corporations are responsible to their shareholders, they are not (and were never meant to be) responsible stewards of the environment.

Boru

Stop making this an "either or" proposition.

Big business do respond to the market. They would not market the way they do if they didn't find it profitable. But at the same time, they ALSO manipulate, and pander to superficial appeal to emotion, in vanity and fear, and narcissism, and they know better, but don't care. 

Corporations are as fucked as everyone else, shareholders are as fucked as everyone else, if all they give a fuck about are profits. So when you say corporations are responsible to their shareholders, NO SHIT. But that does not make them responsible to humanity long term.

One of the biggest scams in corporate America are class pricing on commercial passenger jets. Mind you, I have no problem with some price differences between first class, or isle or window seats. But when some jaded fuck is paying 30 grand for a 12 hour flight when the person in the back of coach, at the back of the plane next to the bathrooms in the back, is only paying 2k, who the fuck is the sucker? And how would it make a lick of difference if the moron in first class is on a plane that suffers catastrophic damage at 40 thousand feet to the point everyone dies? 

I find that price difference fucking bullshit. If that jet is under distress, and all lives depend on the training of the pilots and the mechanical integrity of the plane, how does that bullshit gap between first class and sitting at the back of the plane benefit humanity?