I don’t see anything immoral about it, it’s just business. Corporations are well known to behave like psychopaths.
It seems to me that either (1) individuals working for those corporations ultimately make the decisions that screw over their ill-paid workers, in which case those individuals may be acting immorally; or else (2) actually the entities with agency here are the corporations themselves, in which case they may be acting immorally. Neither of these makes moral questions go away.
(I say “may be” rather than “are” because these are complicated issues and it might e.g. turn out that one can’t do better than Walmart’s employment practices after all.)
I think I agree with everything in your last paragraph.
I am not sure I want the corporations to act morally because the moral system they pick might turn out to be one I strongly disagree with. Focusing on money keeps them safe and predictable. And if you want organizations to work towards moral goals, I see no reason for these organizations to be corporations.
It seems to me that either (1) individuals working for those corporations ultimately make the decisions that screw over their ill-paid workers, in which case those individuals may be acting immorally; or else (2) actually the entities with agency here are the corporations themselves, in which case they may be acting immorally. Neither of these makes moral questions go away.
(I say “may be” rather than “are” because these are complicated issues and it might e.g. turn out that one can’t do better than Walmart’s employment practices after all.)
I think I agree with everything in your last paragraph.
It is rather complicated.
I am not sure I want the corporations to act morally because the moral system they pick might turn out to be one I strongly disagree with. Focusing on money keeps them safe and predictable. And if you want organizations to work towards moral goals, I see no reason for these organizations to be corporations.