Thursday, April 16, 2009

Learning to be (Un)Ethical

I am starting to really get a kick out of ethics class. Going to school in Berkeley has given me an exposure to the most ultra-liberal environment in the country. There are many people here who want to save the world one tree at a time and are all about "Corporate Social Responsibility", whatever that bullshit means. I'm all about capitalism and to be honest a lot of this hippie shit is really getting annoying at this point.

So one would think that our ethics class would teach us how to be more responsible and play into the hands of the liberal base. Well, not so much. Rather it teaches us that you still need to act what's in firms best interest and how society is actually better off by colluding, bribing, and when its appropriate to pollute. this is rocking all these do-gooders to their core. And I love every minute of it. I think the overall takeaways of Ethics class are: Stop Being A F'N Hippie!!!

What I've learned is that all this CSR stuff is basically a PR move that carriers a tax-writeoff and how you can exploit it. We have a Hall of Fame for people who act most appropriately in a business sense and takes advantage of those who are too weak and unreasonably immoral. And after 4 weeks, guess who's #1 on the HOF list.... you guessed it (mwah) and I have no qualms whatsoever. Thank you Gordon Gekko, greed is good.

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