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Originally Posted by HarryT
Do you think that it serves a useful purpose to characterise a company as "good" or "evil"? That suggests a moral (or immoral) motivation for their activities. Company policies are generally not motivated by such things, but rather by the desire to maximise revenue.
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+1. Sometimes companies will "do good" to enhance their reputation with their customers. Google and WholeFood both are known for that. To an extent, WholeFood's business model is based on customers feeling good about shopping at WholeFood (hey, I'm not knocking it, I'm a WholeFood customer), but unless it's a privately held company with no stock holders, a business has a legal responsibility to stock holders.
Amazon is no different than any other large corporation in that respect. That isn't to say that you shouldn't vote with your dollars if a company does something you like or don't like, but it's not an emotional issue for the company involved. It's pure dollars and cents.