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Re: EA treats it's employee's worse than it's customers!

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From: rgo... David Johnston
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 04:44
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On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 01:35:46 GMT, drocket <dro...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 21:05:15 GMT, rgo...@telusplanet.net (David
>Johnston) wrote:
>
>>A corporation is a group of people.  As such they can do things.  
>
>I'm not sure which side you're arguring for, but...
>
>The people can do things.  The corporation itself is merely some
>scraps of paper that say it exists.  The idea that a corporation
>'acts' is a lie that corporation owners and workers tell others to
>avoid legal responsibilities, and tell themselves to avoid feeling
>guilty about their actions.  "Oh now, I'M not paying third-world
>workers barely enough to avoid starvation, that's the corporation
>that's doing that.  Its the CORPORATION'S fault that those people are
>so underpaid that they're forced to sell their children into
>indentured servitude making shoes, not mine.  I just work there."  Its
>a fiction that helps rich people sleep at night, unburdened by the
>guilt over the fact that they're destroying people's lives so they can
>afford another vacation beach house.  I

Oh please.  They aren't "destroying people's lives" by hiring them.  
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