Years ago I taught a course in “business ethics.” In that course, the students and I reviewed various cases in which business executives were faced with decisions that involved potential conflicts among maximizing profits, ethical concerns, and social consequences. Almost always the executives chose maximizing profits.
So the back and forth between supporting Trump and worrying about his actions and choosing the former over the latter doesn’t surprise me at all. At least some of them are now realizing and acknowledging the social costs that policy creates
”This is what happens when we subordinate our moral principles for what we perceive to be business interests,” said Darren Walker, the president of the Ford Foundation and a board member at Square and Ralph Lauren. “It is ultimately bad for business and bad for society.”
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