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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Any store with ethics is made up anyway. Capitalism has been "optimizing" out ethics since inception. Not to say ethical examples don't exist just that they don't last.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Capitalism bad on lemmy of course...

But Capitalism doesn't inherently optimize out ethics. It just tries to optimize out anything that gets in the way of profit.

When being ethical is profitable, companies will be ethical. Many companies are maximizing profits by making ethical decisions solely because doing so keeps their customers purchasing their products instead of their competitors' products.

I'd argue that this is a newer feature of Capitalism as well. So it's accidentally optimizing IN more ethics when compared to 100 years ago.

I think it's more accurate to say that Capitalism is indifferent to ethics rather than to say Capitalism optimizes it out.