I apologize for the title. My rationale for it it that it appears that this kind of thought is related to the men’s movement so often seen online. In all truth, I doubt that any humanly developed classification fits for this level of weirdness.
Here’s a link to an article reporting on what he said and a short quote. However, the full post by this corporate honcho is available in the article.
This time, Musk amplified a bizarre claim from an anonymous social media account that described women as meek objects “built to be traded to another tribe (or captured).”
“That keeps them safe, even though they are physically weak,” the anonymous account continued, before launching into a longer screed about why women should conform to a culture dictated by white men “because the alternative is not so gentle.”
If the phrase “women should conform to a culture dictated by white men” doesn’t catch your attention, I can’t imagine any words that would. Isn’t this an alarm bell type statement? It does go with the Nazi salute rather well.
As a business ethics subject, let us pretend that you are a corporate manager in a company led by a CEO who reposted approvingly these kinds of remark. Much of your money is tied up in company stock. Are you comfortable with this stance and these words? And what if you are a corporate manage but not a white male? Does the level of offense change and the reasons that the words concern you vary from that of a white male manager?
And aside from stock price effects, do these words have implications for how the company will be run in terms of personnel and promotion. After all if women were meant to be traded and after twenty years of captivity to arise as the tribe’s cultural enforcers (Please forgive me, go read the article – I’m just quoting the reposted statements.) should you be hiring them before their twenty years of captivity are up?
It is hard to write about this. Truly this is a very high level of strangeness. But we must come to grips with the fact that a major corporate figure in the United States, a billionaire not only believes this but is willing to say it publicly.
It is truly frightening.
Any stakeholder as defined in business ethics should be concerned with these statements. Since, Musk has involved himself in American politics, that includes all citizens of the United States as as well as the more usual stakeholders of workers, stockholders and company officials.
We have had business leaders who beliefs led to endless trouble. I would point to Henry Ford and his admiration for fascist doctrines. But in this 21st century, this kind of talk is rare save on some media platforms.
Worker organizations, including hospitality union Unite Here Local 11, have been advocating for a citywide ordinance that would raise hospitality workers’ minimum wage to $30 by July 1, 2028, to accommodate rising costs of living as city hotels and airports serve an influx of tourists.
Though industry associations, including the American Hotel & Lodging Association, opposed it — claiming a higher wage could be disastrous for hotel owners and operators in the city — Mayor Karen Bass signed the Citywide Hotel Worker Minimum Wage Ordinance, sometimes called the Olympic Wage, into law May 27.
A minimum wage of thirty dollars an hour for many in the United States is unimaginable. And yet, we should be debating what is the right amount and should have been debating it for years. The current national level is seven dollars and twenty-five cents, a huge and incredible subsidy to businesses and corporations across the United States and an hourly insult to the American work force.
In normal times, this subject and ramifications would be the subject of business class discussions, written assignments and eventually published articles. But we don’t live in rational and intelligent times. We live in age of rampant stupidity, incompetence and corruption.
So, these kinds of academic discussion rarely take place. But we should try. The fact that expertise and science are derided and persecuted by the current proto-fascist administration does not mean that we who think and reason will obligingly disappear. I, for one, intend to put up a fight for wisdom, for intelligence and critical thinking. You can join me.
The issue of a thirty dollar minimum wage for hospitality workers is fascinating. The city of Los Angeles is hosting international events and the hotels and similar facilities make enormous profits. The city government thinks this largess should be shared with those doing the work. I find that argument very persuasive. The hotels argue that such a burden would be excessive and (I quote) cause an “economic tsunami”
I want you to understand that the “economic tsunami” line is a bit of attention getter and I might have wondered if they had a case. Except for already enacted twenty dollar minimum wage established for fast food workers. I regularly check on the right wing media portrayal of this act to amuse myself. If you believe their rhetoric, California is now a desert wasteland with ten dollar hamburgers and masses of unemployed wandering the streets in the form of hungry mobs.
Now, in California human beings are making decent salaries and can have good lives with recreation and housing even if they work in fast food and that is wonderful for everyone except the ideological warriors of the internet and the various conservative think tanks and astroturfed organizations they finance.
Anyone interested in trying to get rid of tips or get working Americans decent wages should wade through these hysterical screams of business agony. You’d think business owner were being set upon with hot irons inquisition style instead of facing a requirement to pay living wages. For the wealthy in the United States, the idea that they should pay people what they are worth is anathema.
Nevertheless, I say to business ethics and students that this would be a good class discussion topic and should be explored. There may come a time when we once again think and act intelligently as a nation. (It may take a bit.)
Since I have returned to writing regularly on my business ethics site, it is important to reflect on what has changed since I first began this project.
I started this blog in 2006 and often published several times a day. I was very enthusiastic. Each morning I would go over the major news sites carefully reading their “Business” sections (sometimes the sites called it “Money” or some other euphemism) and there were always one of two things worthy of a business ethics writer’s attention.
Well, now it is 2025 and we are just at the end of first six months of this lawless administration. I went through the news and came up with 25 solid business ethics topics to discuss — and that is when I stopped counting. The regular business ethics issues I saw when I began have been replaced by a flood of business ethics failures and obscenities. One day’s news output could keep a man writing for weeks.
Wanton, incompetent and often downright evil behavior is a constant in the news, in particular when discussing the actions of our current President. But many business leaders, the wealthy and other politicians have leaped on the immorality bandwagon. Never before in American history has being cruel, self serving and vile been so celebrated and publicized. I never thought to live to see such times and it is painful to see such evil and so little push back.
Let me give you an example. And I didn’t have to look for an example, it was on today’s news.
Stupid and Immoral — And Proud of it!
Take a look at the article linked to below. This CEO’s hatred and disdain for human beings who I might add he is paid to lead and manage is self evident. He is outwardly, nakedly and proudly empty of moral values and human decency. Not to mention, astonishingly unaware, for if AI makes workers obsolete, it does the same for CEO’s. I promise that while I weep for the suffering of workers, I will celebrate with good food and friends every CEO replaced by a machine.
“CEOs are extremely excited about the opportunities that AI brings,” Elijah Clark, a chief executive who advises other head honchos on using AI at their companies, told Gizmodo in an interview. “As a CEO myself, I can tell you, I’m extremely excited about it. I’ve laid off employees myself because of AI.”
“AI doesn’t go on strike. It doesn’t ask for a pay raise,” he added, parroting cliched talking points, much like a certain over-hyped technology. “These things that you don’t have to deal with as a CEO.”
I used to teach in a business college of the type that this cretin almost certainly graduated from one does not fill me with pride. We should have done better with our students than turning out morally challenged money-grubbers. I certainly tried and many faculty I knew also tried hard to give some semblance of moral, ethical and traditionally American values teaching but we were up against the corruption and evil of our current business and political leadership. All the money and power now seems to go to the psychopath and the sycophants. It is not an edifying spectacle.
It may be in a few years that we will once again live in a democracy that this proto-fascist feast of the gluttonous pigs will be over. Be we may very well lose this and all the things a whole human being should hold dear will pass away to subsumed in a morass of greed and self interest.
The environment both natural and artificial shapes us.
I write about business ethics and I am deeply concerned about our current students in colleges and universities across the United States. Right now they are witnessing the highest and most powerful people in the United States government behaving in often illegal and continuously unethical ways. I am pointing specifically at the Cabinet members of the current administration although they are not the only ones.
They were selected on the basis of the most craven, servile loyalty and very often without any actual qualifications for their positions. And we see often on a daily basis, that to keep these jobs they must over and over again express their fealty to the current leadership. It is a degrading spectacle. Humans were meant to walk upright like free men and women not like some kind of whipped dog.
So, the current students here in this country witness a group of people getting ahead by sacrificing their honor, their self-respect, and abdicating their obedience and oath to the Constitution and laws of the United States. These people appear on television. They get good salaries and excellent benefits. There is an implication of after office service in think tanks and foundations at even more money. (However, the future of those from this openly corrupt administration is in some doubt.) Their lives are clear evidence that giving up your principles and abject loyalty to the most monstrous of individuals can be a successful strategy, if money and position are your only goals.
We do not live purely for money and position. I believe that is a truth. However, when I was teaching my students often told me that would seek a high paying position and do that job for twenty some years and then retire and live the life they wanted. I tried to explain to them that twenty years at a degrading and morally corrupt job would change them permanently, not to mention that a long life is not something that can be depended on. I am not sure they listened. After all, the lure of the opposite sex, nice cars, social position and economic security are very persuasive.
Explaining that a life you can look back on with pride is the only one worth living is difficult when your students are so young and want so many things so badly. And that is why we who teach are under a special and vital responsibility to point out the flaws in the “success at any personal cost” model.
We must be inspirational leaders not just teachers. We will have failed in a substantial and historically significant way if the current generation learns as a life lesson that servility and dishonor are proven paths to success. How will we be able to enjoy our retirements and our latter years when we see our students entering middle age in jobs they hate and despise because we were unable to communicate the important of moral and socially responsible conduct? And what of our nation? Can you imagine an entire generation admiring the antics of Pete Hegseth or Pam Bondi or any other of the cast of this ongoing federal reality show, a form of Wrestlemania writ large across our civic landscape?
If there was a time in your life to stand up for the values of the United States of America, this is it.
If you value your students’ futures, you must act to influence them to act in the interests of their nation, their posterity and their honor.
If not now, then when?
There is no convenient time to take a stand against evil.
Act now.
Your students and your nation are worth fighting for.
Business ethics in the United States is taking some hard hits right now. In the last few days, one of the hardest hits that ethics in business has taken has come from what many people thought was a great university. They were mistaken.
Columbia University having agreed to a 200 million dollar payout has become the model for more Mafia style shakedowns of higher education in the United States.
Like Al Capone in Chicago, once you have one business paying protection you just roll up the rest of the block. So it is for American higher education. Columbia is the first in the dominoes.
Here – read the article about how Columbia will be the model.
“The deal didn’t just include a payout. Columbia also agreed to the appointment of an independent monitor who will determine if the school is abiding by the agreement, which includes provisions related to admissions, faculty hiring, and antisemitism on campus.”
Oh and look!! With an independent monitor, the shakedowns can continue indefinitely! You can bet real, hard money that a parade of demands for more money and power will come on a regular basis because once you’ve shown moral cowardice and the absence of any backbone, the extortion never, ever stops.
Perhaps, as in Florida, cronies of our “government” will find themselves well paying positions with lots of free perks in the now morally challenged atmosphere of the cowering leadership of a once great university.
The spectacle of a great university folding like a gambler with a busted flush sounds like a story from a bad novel. Who would have thought that a great independent bastion of thought would be kneeling before the great orange Cheeto?
This is a blog on business ethics so let us do our moral analysis!!
When your research grants are stopped on spurious grounds and you are given a list of nonsensical loony demands including giving up your independence and ability to do things like choose your own faculty, you should:
A. Deploy your lawyers and summon support from alumni to fight this assault.
B. Seek political support seeking input from your stakeholders while taking a principled stand for the political independence of a major university.
C. Ally with other universities like Harvard and demand fair treatment and justice.
D. Pay 200 million dollars and give into every demand the administration makes.
My analysis would be that A, B and C are all viable paths of social responsibility and justice seeking. They did D, the path of cowardice and compliance. That was wrong.
The moral bankruptcy of American businesses faced with threats from the administration offers clear parallels to the end of the Wiemar Republic and the end of democracy in that country. This is a national tragedy with dramatic implications.
Since, I have taught business ethics, I must find that Columbia has erred on the side of wrong doing and moral failure.
They have just sacrificed not just two hundred million dollars but their moral reputation and their sacred honor.
They will not be getting them back.
And their failure makes it easier for this evil administration to shake down other schools.
It will never be the same institution that it once was and may safely be discarded as having any principles besides keeping federal funding flowing at all costs.
My long term prediction is as follows. They will find in the long term that they will lose the money as well. This isn’t a just one battle, the long term goal is annihilation. As a defender of civilization and thought, Columbia is to be destroyed. And that is what is going to happen unless braver people with actual spines come to their rescue. A rescue I might add, they in no way deserve.
This is what David Letterman had to say about the cancellation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
While the network and its owners claim that the cancellation was purely motivated by financial decision making, one would have to be clueless, thoughtless and endlessly naive to accept that as a fact.
“I think one day, if not today, the people at CBS who have manipulated and handled this are going to be embarrassed because this is gutless,” he told former “Late Show” producers Barbara Gaines and Mary Barclay in a Zoom chat uploaded to his YouTube page.
From the quote above one gets the impression that Letterman believes that there will be a future without the stain of the current administration upon us.
It is to be hoped that this current regime’s catalogue of horrors will some day end but that is not at this time clear. We are faced with the possibility of these wicked monied interests and their debauched and greedy lickspittles may have permanently impaired our democracy and perverted our future into a Putin like totalitarian regime.
Should democracy survive we will have to come to terms with the cowardice of CBS and many other businesses who gave up any shred of decency to serve the regime. But above all, we must turn our attention to the six Justices of the Supreme Court who during this time of crisis have served as the President’s abject servants in disregard of their oaths, their duty and their status as citizens of the United States. Their decisions opened the pathway to the end of our democracy and if it is saved it will be in spite of these six. They must be dealt with – impeached or the court packed — but these proto-fascist, pseudo judicial decisions must end. We must have actual judges who follow the law.
I have been away from this my web site, Pilant’s Business Ethics, for a long time. I retired from teaching and only wished to sit quietly, read my books and maybe write a mystery novel or even a Western. At one time, I had around seventy thousand followers. Right now there are a little more than two hundred who subscribe. It has been a long time.
But I cannot be silent. A horrifying evil infests our nation and while my voice may be small and ineffectual, it is still my voice and I am American – and I have a duty to speak and speak as loudly as I can against the current regime.
And so, I’m back. Daily posting and much outrage. May God bless us all.
I don’t generally feature an opinion piece as the center of my approach on writing about business ethics or the larger questions of morality and ethics in American society. But this one caught my attention as it focuses on some issues that have been bothering me.
Robert Reich has written an opinion piece which appeared in the Guardian. It’s called “The Trump hush-money trial reveals a seedy world shot through with moral rot.” (The link is at top.)
Let me quote a little piece so you can get a flavor of it. Referring to Trump and his associates he writes:
It’s a sell-or-tell society, a catch-and-kill society, a just-take-care-of-it society. A society where money and power are the only considerations. Where honor and integrity count for nothing.
I strongly agree. The trial has not surprised me. I knew about Donald Trump long before his Presidential aspirations. I don’t mind telling you how I became interested. It was Trump University. People paid large sums of money for a product advertised with the Trump name and got virtually nothing in return. That conduct has been consistent throughout Trump’s career.
But he has millions of followers who seem to believe that his moral and criminal failings amount to nothing or are made up charges, a product of the deep state — or one of their other many fantasies.
Reich’s clear eyed and direct condemnation is important because so few people especially Republicans seem to have any moral qualms these days. Sometimes I thing that a complete lack of moral or ethical qualities is necessary for participation in the inner workings of the Republican party.
Robert Reich speaks while so many are silent. Here is some more of what he had to say:
I sometimes worry that the daily dismal drone of Trump world – the continuous lies and vindictiveness that issue from Trump and his campaign, the dismissive and derogatory ways he deals with and talks about others, the people who testify at his criminal trial about what they have done for him and what he has done for or to them – has a subtly corrosive effect on our own world. I think it is important to remind ourselves that most of the people we know are not like this. That honor and integrity do count. That standards of decency guide most behavior. That relationships matter.
I am sure that Donald Trump has damaged the moral fiber of the United States. I believe that the unleashed anger of the Internet trolls will continue and that we will be dealing with Trump pretenders for decades to come. He and his demented followers have made politics and discourse distasteful and crude. They have made conducting the governing of this nation difficult and often demeaning.
It is a tragic time for the United States and the nation may yet not survive it. The dramatic attacks on our justice system are just one part of a hideous proto-fascist approach to governance that we may see more of in the coming years.
Let’s start with the facts of the matters as explained in the top article above:
On Feb. 10, 2022, the woman was hospitalized after experiencing high blood pressure at work, according to the lawsuit. When she returned to her office, she noticed a new employee, who was about 30 years younger, sitting at her desk, the lawsuit says. That day, the woman met with the general manager, who questioned her about how long she planned to work for the company, according to the suit. “Where do you see yourself? Do you need to keep working? Don’t you want to travel? See your brother?” are questions the manager is accused of asking her, the lawsuit says. The woman made it clear she wanted to continue working for two or three more years, according to the EEOC.
The resolution of the case, again from the article above:
Now Covenant Woods has agreed to settle the lawsuit for $78,000, the EEOC, the federal agency in charge of protecting workers against discrimination, announced in an April 30 news release. Covenant Woods is to pay the woman the amount in full, according to a consent decree filed April 29. She will receive $50,000 for compensatory damages and $28,000 for wages.
When I was teaching, I often got a very fine question from my students about these matters. Since, you can fire anyone for any cause, how does a business get caught for discrimination? It’s very simple, they explain it to the victim and the world. I have literally seen cases where people were fired and the business in question sent them a letter explaining that they were being fired for being old. (And then I would explain how businesses very often think they know the law when they clearly don’t.)
The business here didn’t leave us in much doubt as to their motives. I have to admire them for the cold blooded villainy with which the whole matter was executed.
This is one of the standard business ethics things we see over and over again. I don’t think it is as common as being fired for getting pregnant (You are not supposed to fire women for getting pregnant either.) but it is right up there.
Why do business owners keep doing stupid stuff like this? It’s very simple. Our society doesn’t place much value on age and experience — and so they feel safe in exercising that prejudice.
Do they realize they’re being stupid? No, generally stupid, incompetent and greedy people are the very last people to realize their inherent bad qualities. And since they are invoking the values, the corrupt and foolish values – mind you, of the larger society, they think they are just making your average “American” decisions.
Here is what should be done.
We need to change the way we educate business majors. Currently we teach them the current beliefs in the field of business largely unvarnished by research. So, we get a whole bunch of people with little real education in any of the human endeavors that make whole human beings. Specifically there should be a Business Law II course which goes into more depth about our laws and society.
We should teach a business profession imbued with human values and ethics. We should teach a business regime where businesses form a partnership, a symbiosis, with our greater society, participants in the health and welfare of the people of the nation.
What we get now in many cases are morally blank pursuers of cash at all costs and over any obstacle. Now, some would deny this – they are wrong – and I know they are wrong because I taught in a business department and running across a student whose one abiding desire was to make a ton of money legally or otherwise was a regular event.
Let’s create a new crop of businessman fit to live among us in a democratic society based on law and ethical virtue.
It is the very least a morally responsible teaching profession should do.
It was a bad, bad week. The business iniquities, stupidities and damned incompetence were on full display. It didn’t just rain business ethics problems, it was more of a thunderstorm.
So, I have instead of trying to cover all that very wide ground, I have picked out a few topics I thought more interesting than the rest. We must begin with the wretched murderer, O.J. Simpson, a solid demonstration how powerful friends and money perverts the scales of justice.
O.J. Simpson was a remorseless murderer, spousal abuser and all around scoundrel. The Goldman family deserve every last dime of his fortune. That is simple basic ethics.
John Eastman was one of the architects of the plan to overthrow the 2020 election on behalf of Donald Trump. He deserves the loss of his law license and much, much more.
“Enough is enough. Endless scrolling is rewiring our teenagers’ brains,” added Gena Kakkak, chairwoman of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin. “We are demanding these social media corporations take responsibility for intentionally creating dangerous features that ramp up the compulsive use of social media by the youth on our Reservation.”
It is not just the tribe, it is all of the United States and much of the world suffers because social media has no social responsibility and virtually legal limitations on what they can do. They have unleashed unfettered capitalism, grifting and savage manipulation across the planet. And made many billions of dollars in the process. The saddest thing is that for many of our ruling class those billions obscure any moral or ethical needs to act because for them money is only indicator of virtue.
For many in the United States, the community status of librarians, teachers and school administration has been a barrier to their attempts to shatter, destroy and diminish public education.
In order to deal with this “problem,” these individuals and considerable number of radical organizations have embarked on an organized take down of the listed professions.
Slander and libel have become valuable tools in this regard. Calling educators, “groomers,” was a first step in damaging the moral, ethical community status of these people.
But they are not stopping there, criminalizing behavior associated with books and curriculum – and once again, slandering and libeling teachers, librarians and administrators as purveyors of obscene materials (like “The Diary of Anne Frank” and “To Kill a Mockingbird”) are the next step. The goal is, of course, to get a few librarians and teachers thrown in jail or prison. These events will be used for fund raising and the encouragement of new laws allowing parental lawsuits and further criminalization of those professions.
That this is evil, immoral, unethical and unworthy of any decent human being is self-evident.
Minnesota froze tuition at public colleges and for in-state students, whose families makes less than $80,000 a year, will start paying tuition and fees this fall after allowing for grants and scholarships.
Every state can do this. Let’s get rid of the specter and horror of student loans for the bulk of the middle class – and get people through college.
Directly from the article: Consumer Reports said sodium levels in the store-bought lunch and snack kits it tested ranged from 460 to 740 milligrams per serving, or “nearly a quarter to half of a child’s daily recommended limit for sodium.” The group found that sodium levels in the turkey and cheddar school versions of Lunchables contained 930 mg of sodium compared to 740 mg in the store-bought version.
We should not be feeding this stuff to children. It’s wrong.
Farris and Dan Wilks have been sending millions of dollars to encourage the belief that global warming is a natural phenomenon and destined by God. Among those receiving the money is our old friends at Prager U who suggested that those who advocate for the environment are just like the Nazis.
I have a real curiosity about this. You see those who denied the damage caused by opiates and tobacco, they made bundles of money and then successfully moved on to lines of disinformation but what will happen to these people after the first million die in the coming climate catastrophes? Or the first billion? Or just when the surface temperature in the middle United States hits the mid 130’s?
This was a major disappointment. I was all excited about the “dark secret.” I was thinking maybe additives, contamination, you know, business ethics stuff. What I got was — when regular chickens in the meat section get close to expiration they get used for rotisserie chicken.
When I read the phrase, “dark secret,” it sort of implied that maybe Voldemort was cooking them or they were a by product of the Empire in Star Wars, or maybe they were Nazi or Commie chickens, you know, cooked birds with a strong political bent.
But no, they are just close to expiration before being cooked.
My thanks to my kind readers. Have a wonderful and fulfilling new week (hopefully better than this one).
About twenty years ago, I had an appointment to see a colleague at the college where I taught. She was in a meeting with a student who was having a bit of a crisis and I didn’t have a problem waiting knowing my friend’s superlative skills in counseling would provide some closure and help to the student but that it would take a while. There was a pile of old (most of them more than ten years old) Newsweek and Time magazines. So, I decided to look at the Business Ethics stories in those magazine. I was teaching the subject at the time and I though a historical view might be interesting.
The magazines had no stories of business ethics failures. The only references I could find was oblique ones when talking about a famous person’s past or that list of short paragraphs of what was in current new that they sometimes featured. I thought about this hard for a long time and realized the truth. It would have been damaging to the magazine profitability to disclose or even reference the scale and illegality of corporate wrong doing. The fact is business ethics was not an issue in terms of reporting for many in the media for many decades and that is still true of much media today.
Each day I search through major media outlets and good number of minor ones looking for subjects to write about. I’ve listed four pretty typical story ideas up with links listed at the top of this essay.
I want you to understand my thought processes and attempts at finding compelling topics to write about. The first one is a subject dear to my heart. I was fourteen years old and looking through books in the Pryor Public Library in Northeastern Oklahoma — and I found Mortimer J. Adler’s “How to Read a Book.” I devoured it. According to my school testing my reading level was “college, two years” and I knew I was pretty good but this book taught me how far I had to go. So, I learned to read the whole in terms of the parts and the parts in terms of the whole.
But what was more important was the list at the end of the book. There was a list of the great books of the Western world. It has been many years and in that time I have read about a third of them. I believe that one of the best ways to learn the best behavior and concepts of morality is the study of those books. So, a good topic to write about – something I have familiarity with.
The second topic about is about changes in Europe. All of our NATO allies are in the midst of movement in terms of policy toward the aggression of the Russians and the inability of the United States to find unity or purpose. Allowing the freedom fighters of the Ukraine to die for the political advantage of Donald Trump and the Republican party is a stain on our nation that will not be erased for quite some time.
I try not to write about international affairs or the horrible coming election very much. They are not really business ethics issues unless you stretch the concept quite a bit. But they do present moral and ethical questions many of them critical issues of life and death.
In Christianity as expressed in the New Testament, Jesus remarks that if you are ashamed of him and his words, he will be ashamed of you in the next world. I believe that. But it seems to me to be just the same when it comes to morality, ethics and doing what is right. If you fall silent in the face of evil and crime, why should God take notice of you in the next life? I have a duty to call out the criminal, to call out the wrong doer and to demand justice. So, you’ll seen the occasional foreign affairs and political piece in my writings. It is a duty to my morality.
The third topic is New York State is suing a major meat producer for “green washing,” pretending that you are protecting the environment verbally and in advertisements while in fact doing little or nothing. This is where the vast majority of business ethics textbook writers feel very much at home. This is a traditional business ethics issue and becoming more and more a legal issue. But this kind of corporate misconduct however serious in the long term is legalistic, complex and requires just oodles of explanatory text. I don’t mind writing it but it seems to me that readers run away from complexity unless you pretty up with stories of the dead and the dying and maybe some pictures. I’ll probably give this topic a miss.
The fourth topic is about climate change. The danger of our looming climate crisis is a real loser online. People do not want to read about it. That is what my analytics show on this particular topic. I agree it is depressing. But there are people out that who want to pretend it is not happening and if they prevail, millions will die, many more millions will be displaced and every part of the world will be effected and effected badly. The subject demands attention based on morality and ethics. My public may find this discouraging. It still needs to be discussed. Here’s a quote from the article:
A “historic heatwave” is being experienced across south-east Asia, according to Maximiliano Herrera, a climatologist and weather historian. In updates posted on X, he said heat that was unprecedented for early April had been recorded at monitoring stations across the region this week, including in Minbu, in central Myanmar, where 44C was recorded – the first time in south-east Asia’s climatic history that such high temperatures had been reached so early in the month. In Hat Yai, in Thailand’s far south, 40.2 C was reached, an all-time record, while Yên Châu in north-west Vietnam hit 40.6C, unprecedented for this time of year.
A temperature of 44C is 111 degrees Fahrenheit. I think I should talk about this.
This is how I work through topics. I am trying to make a difference, to find meaning and significance with my writing. Let us cooperate in this joint endeavor, I the writer and you, the reader and observer of this written attempt at moral processing.
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