Additionally, companies might be political in ways I might not care. It might be simply a non-factor when deciding whether I give them business or not. But the sheer fact they are politically active, so to speak, and don' focus solely on providing the best services for the best prices with the highest quality, is the red flag that instantly makes me wary of doing business with them in the first place.
Not really? The implication is that every choice has a 50/50 split of support. That couldn’t be farther from the truth.
> should be solely in the hands of the individual, not the corporations
The businesses in the article are doing what they did because of legal sanctions on iran. Not because they are making political choices about who to do business with.
But your description of what companies should be doing is describing unfettered psychopathic capitalism. Companies that will break every code of morality or decency as long as it’s technically legal. Chromium in the water? Go for it. Even legality is just a speed bumb. If you can get away with it? If you can bribe your way out of it? Why not do it!
I don’t want to live in that world. Unfortunately that’s pretty much the world we live in already and it shows.
