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[-] declaredreprimand@piefed.social 20 points 1 day ago

Companies, especially larger ones, abstract away human responsibility and ethics from the decision-making process, making it easier for people to do bad things.

“We do this for the company!”

Plus, an individual’s ability to live being tied to the continued success of said company doesn’t help things either.

“If I speak out, I’m not a ‘team player’. And those people get fired.”

[-] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

There's also diffusing responsibility across the organization. It's easy to achieve unethical things, when the individual's part of the job hardly seems "bad" at all.

this post was submitted on 20 Aug 2025
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