Is US trying to Spread democracy in the world or is China trying to make US lose its virtue of free society?
Recently Yahoo! gave out the identity of a journalist to the Chinese government, who was eventually put behind bars. Many people from the free speech and free market world have been irked by this irresponsible behavior of Yahoo! and are lambasting it for this misdeed. Microsoft,the worlds biggest software giant has succumbed to the wants of Chinese government, by removing few words from its software( the words which USA is trying to imprint on Iraq). Another act that goes to prove that the USA corporation are ready to satisfy any customer(Chinese in this case) to any extent.
It is important to do a rerun of USA's free market and Capitalistic philosophy at this point before Yahoo! or American corporations can be blamed. Yahoo! and Microsoft's corporate attitude is an innuendo to one simple thing, "In Capitalism there is only one ethic/responsibility/value and that is MONEY". All those who think that Yahoos! attitude was of corporate irresponsibility, here is what I have to say. A corporation in US owes its allegiance to its customers, then the share holders and then to its employees(This one is becoming optional in many cases). So if a corporation has to sacrifice one journalists name in the best interest of the share holders then it's perfectly apt. Hasn't anyone heard of the umpteen stories about sacrifice for the greater cause. Well, this act by Yahoo! Was one of those. In the best interest of the share holders they did it so that they can have better relations with the Chinese government and eventually look forward to capture more market in China.
So why is everyone in US( a pure capitalistic country)cribbing about this great act of Yahoo!. And if Corporations were to really become responsible then where are those responsibilities gone when the American corporations dump American goods in the 3rd world countries and kill the local industries of those countries.
It's tough to understand this dichotomy in the attitude of people who think that USA should not succumb to the Chinese pressure but can go ahead and wipe out the self-reliance of 3rd world countries for profits. While American people and their values are great and I hope that they stay like that forever, I do think that the US corporations and people heading them need to take a dose of morals/values, and stop doing a strip-tease of the values they wear when China dangles some currency notes(Potential of capturing Chinese Markets).
Customer satisfaction is the utmost virtue and should be, of any corporation. But sacrificing virtues, which are the root cause of these companies sheer existence and prosperity in USA, to satisfy customers is something that the CEOs of American corporations need to think about.
Finally, US corporations are doing what the communists what them to do and in doing so, I am afraid to say, they are making the Americans a part of the communism. So is this the start of the fall of democracy in US or is it Just corporate Irresponsibility??
