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Morality of profit?

What is morality of profit anyways? there's another essay contest/scholarship (a huge one) that I'd like to do but I have no clue what morality of profit IS exactly... I know morality is "The conscience which informs you if an action is 'right' or 'wrong' and the quality to know, and conform, to the 'rules of right conduct' " and Profit is how much money is made after subtracting the price of production of something from the price sold at but I can't put it together...

Help??? Puzzled

__Rex__'s picture

I am not sure exactly what you are talking about. I mean I get it but I am not sure what you are aiming for. Do you want examples? Well I guess you can take Coca Cola. To keep the labor cheap in their South American factories they have ordered the assassinations of union leaders . Nestle (you know the thing with the chocolate milk?) are using child slaves in their cocoa plants in Africa and there are like probably hundreds of other examples. Especially if you go into the oil and mercenary buisness

You mean stuff like this where morality is taking a backseat to profit?

melissa0522975's picture

after seeing how others explained it to me and how you explained it to me, I have no idea what I mean! Sticking out tongue I'm pretty sure it's along those lines though!

I used to believe in all your romantic dreaming
it really ain't that cute anymore
cause my time's to precious
so I wish you the best with
whatever it is you're looking for
baby this is all for your own good
I'm leaving cause I know you never would

__Rex__'s picture

Well if it was me I would split it into several parts

1. Profit and the public. - when companies make unsafe and untested products for more profit

2. Profit and employees on international level- the usual stuff. How workers in third world countries do back breaking labor in harsh workplaces without safety and for barely any money at all. But don't just take a one sided approach. Also consider that without this meager for our standtarts jobs quite a few people and their families would die.

3.Profit and employees on local level- take a look at how the employees are treated in industrialized countries starting with your own. Look at things like healthcare,work safety and so n. Comapre the best with the worst and connect with the profit

4. Business tactics- buisness is a cuthroat world. Make a comparsion between what we might define as good tactics like charity pr and so on and bad ones like bribing,lobbying aka buying politicians, propganda and so on. And of course big extreme like the examples I showed you above where they are going almost into super villain territory

That's just like the first things that come to mind right now

melissa0522975's picture

Rex, you are so awesome! I knew you'd be a good help! Thanks!

I used to believe in all your romantic dreaming
it really ain't that cute anymore
cause my time's to precious
so I wish you the best with
whatever it is you're looking for
baby this is all for your own good
I'm leaving cause I know you never would

melissa0522975's picture

bump

I used to believe in all your romantic dreaming
it really ain't that cute anymore
cause my time's to precious
so I wish you the best with
whatever it is you're looking for
baby this is all for your own good
I'm leaving cause I know you never would

Unit7's picture

I am going to take a stab in the dark *stabs* and Im going to go with whether or not the profits you made were achieved through honesty and facts and doing the right thing instead of using tricks, misleading information, slandar and the likes.

Or...

something like that.


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melissa0522975's picture

That's a good way of putting it... thanks Unit!
It's to hard to find articles on this subject and I'm having the worst time trying to figure it out...
Oh well, I got till February!

I used to believe in all your romantic dreaming
it really ain't that cute anymore
cause my time's to precious
so I wish you the best with
whatever it is you're looking for
baby this is all for your own good
I'm leaving cause I know you never would

Unit7's picture

You still might want to find out what it means from someone who knows what it means. I was afterall just taking a wild stab in the dark. Sticking out tongue


"You All Everybody! You All Everbody!" - Charlie
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melissa0522975's picture

yeah... that's why I bumped it! Sticking out tongue
I hope Rex opens this.... he seems to know about all this stuff in America more than most Americans (which is good for him but sad for us!)

I used to believe in all your romantic dreaming
it really ain't that cute anymore
cause my time's to precious
so I wish you the best with
whatever it is you're looking for
baby this is all for your own good
I'm leaving cause I know you never would