The Corporate Morality Mask
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Several corporations have been moralizing to customers and using corporate power to censor information and influence politics in the name of better practices for quite some time. These corporations have altered their business practices to use social issues for influencing potential customers, limiting worker behavior and thought, and shaping legal policies in a psychological attempt to make customers believe a corporation has moral ethics or is worthy of emulation. This ridiculous proposition can be unmasked with every corporate spending report, do they spend most of their earnings on genuine attempts to better society for all people or do they plan events and reward loyal advocates for paying lip service to their mask of morality? Are they prone to extravagant displays of “benevolence” with media coverage and every possible manipulation of the event to advantage or do they just invest within communities without all the desired but unnecessary back patting and victory laps?
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