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Facebook and Apple

dimanche 7 février 2021 à 01:00

*Forget Zuckerberg and Cook's hypocrisy — it's their companies that are the real problem.*

I agree with that point, but the writer is partially mistaken when projecting Milton Friedman's ideas beyond the past few decades. In the 1970s it was generally accepted that a corporation had obligations to the community in which it operated -- not solely to stockholders.

Reagan's surrender-to-business revolution established Friedman's ideal of greed as the norm of society, but we don't have to leave it that way.