I quite frequently hear or read complaints about companies' ethics -- exploitation of tax loopholes, spreading disinformation about global warming, getting their press releases to appear almost verbatim as newspaper articles, etc., etc., etc.
Perhaps there's a correlation with politics? Most of the politically-charged stuff I read has a leftward rather than a rightward skew, and generally lefties are more concerned about the ethical behaviour of businesses and righties about the ethical behaviour of individuals. (Yes, I know that's a sweeping generalization. And is it just me, or is "lefties" quite a commonplace term and "righties" really weird?)
Note: Please let's not turn this into a discussion of any of the particular ethical transgressions I mentioned; the point isn't whether, e.g., oil companies are really spreading disinformation about global warming, nor whether that's a bad thing, but whether they're commonly accused of doing so by people who think it is a bad thing. My experience is that they are.
Perhaps there's a correlation with politics? Most of the politically-charged stuff I read has a leftward rather than a rightward skew, and generally lefties are more concerned about the ethical behaviour of businesses and righties about the ethical behaviour of individuals. (Yes, I know that's a sweeping generalization. And is it just me, or is "lefties" quite a commonplace term and "righties" really weird?)
Note: Please let's not turn this into a discussion of any of the particular ethical transgressions I mentioned; the point isn't whether, e.g., oil companies are really spreading disinformation about global warming, nor whether that's a bad thing, but whether they're commonly accused of doing so by people who think it is a bad thing. My experience is that they are.