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lordjedi
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Political compass: interesting test
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Date created
11-Feb-2008, 8:45 PM
Originally posted by: Sweeney599
Originally posted by: lordjedi
Ah yes, because again, as we all know, trans-national corporations are nothing but evil. Pure evil I say! Evil!!!
actually I would have used the term greedy. They only care about one thing: making money.


Most companies are this way. After all, you can't stay in business if you don't make money. This isn't limited to trans-nationals. In fact, for most public companies, they answer to the shareholders. If they aren't making money, then confidence in management goes down, the stock price goes down, and eventually the employees leave and they go out of business.

So technically, every person or company that's in business to make money is greedy. Otherwise, they'd just give everything away for free. Free doesn't usually pay the mortgage or put food on the table though.

How big is the company you work for Sweeney? My job has over 50 employees now. That's just about considered small-medium business in California. In fact, we had a huge bunch of regulations kick in when we hit the 50 employee mark. Sure, they care about their employees, but they also care a whole lot about keeping costs low and making money. So much so that we regularly put pressure on suppliers to give us a lower price. Sounds an aweful lot like a "trans-national", except we're still a pretty small company.

"Trans-nationals" get a bad rap. If people really didn't like them, they wouldn't buy products from them. Me, I got to Walmart as little as possible (usually just for an oil change) because I can't stand the place. I can find products just as cheap online and I don't have to deal with the typical Walmart shopper or the employee.