It's like every company that wasn't complete shit just suddenly decided to...go to complete shit.

[sturgist@lemmy.ca]

It's like every company that wasn't complete playing the social good will game and didn't appear at a casual glance to be shit just suddenly decided to...go to complete shit. masks off, because they saw it might finally be acceptable to be ghouls again.

Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure I FTFY. Wish it weren't so, but that's definitely what it looks like....

[softestsapphic@lemmy.world]

The mask of humanity fall[s] from capital. It has to take it off to kill everyone -- everything you love; all the hope and tenderness in the world. It has to take it off, just for one second. To do the deed.

• Disco Elysium

[sturgist@lemmy.ca]

Game is such a fucking gem. I gotta do a replay soon.

They are just taking the mask off since they don't have to wear it right now.

Cuts into profit margins pretending to not be a threat to the continued existence of the species and ecosystem as a whole. Gotta buy that 15th mega-yacht.

Something something, I'll bring the BBQ sauce.

[grue@lemmy.world]

They have a fiduciary duty to be as shitty as humanly possible.

They don't -- that's a cargo-cult misunderstanding of Dodge v. Ford Motor Co -- but it's so widely believed I guess it might as well be true.

[surph_ninja@lemmy.world]

If the people sitting on the Supreme Court believe it, and I believe the majority of those shitbags do, then that is unfortunately the law as it stands.

But when the law is unethical, I don’t see why we should be lawful.

[lone_faerie@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

With the current US government, there's far more roadblocks to running a company ethically than turning it to absolute shit

[weirdboy@lemm.ee]

Brother is a Japanese company.

[sreudianflip@sh.itjust.works]

Well, there is plenty of evidence to the contrary, such as the way Costco mostly operates. Being the good guys has a lot of brand value. With a little nurturing of the vast propaganda machine known as advertising, that could be improved.

[artyom@lemm.ee]

The government has mostly turned a blind eye to dark pattern business for years, and now the president is openly saying that he encourages it and wants companies to step up their game. Of course things are going to get worse, especially now where everyone will have forgotten this by the next election, so it'll get to stay as "the norm"

[philpo@feddit.org]

Dude, Brother is not even an US company - like most big printer companies it's Japanese and traded at the Tokyo stock exchange.

So.... You're arguments are invalid and only show your americentric world view.