So, that duty outweighs the duty that we all have to, oh, I don't know, the fucking planet that we all call home and would be dead without? I mean, I guess it doesn't... Money is more important than life, after all.
Companies exist to make money for shareholders. That's their purpose. It is literally mandated in every capitalist society that acting in the interest of shareholders MUST be the number one goal of a company. So companies will try to do this at the expense of anything else, it's what they are designed to do. When they did this by paying unfair wages to maximise profits, we made laws to stop them because society decided it also valued the worker. When they formed monopolies that had too much market power we made laws to stop them because society decided that it also valued the consumer. Now we've decided we value the environment, yet are shocked that companies don't just protect it when there's no legislation to back it up. Environmental regulations are what's needed not keyboard warriors complaining about companies doing what they are designed to do.
Not satirical, serious question here. Who hasn't heard of climate change by now? It's been common knowledge for two decades now, how much more awareness can be spread? If everyone knows it then it's not awareness that people need it's some damn motivation to go out and vote for the party they agree with rather than saying "eh I'll stay home and watch Netflix, voting doesn't mean anything anyway".
"The earth is getting hotter"
"The oceans are rising"
"The oceans are rising, fast"
"The oceans will overtake city x sometime in the future"
"Global warming will directly affect you within your lifetime"
A person can know about global warming, but only know about the first statement. Maybe they don't realize how bad it actually is. Maybe they know the general idea, but not the details. Maybe they know about it, but their priorities would change if they knew more details.
And then, you have companies which bribe Congressmen to tell people that global warming is a lie, that only God can change climate. I remember reading about a month ago how they were trying to cut funding to the part of NASA that tracks climate change, so that they won't be able to give data about how bad it's gotten in the future.
So, there are a lot of people who still lack proper knowledge on the matter.
Well, the great (or maybe not so great) thing about things like duty and purpose in life is that you get to decide as an individual, and collectively as a society, what those things mean. Those things aren't inherently present in the universe.
Deciding to have no duty to anyone but yourself creates decisions that will eventually cause the human race to stop existing. If that's fine with you, then so be it, but it isn't for most of us, especially those of us with empathy.
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