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Originally Posted by gmw
I distrust easy answers. The whole evil corporation run by mean-spirited bean-counters thing is a great device for fiction, but it's a cop-out here. And I think it cheapens what these women achieved.
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You opined earlier that your comments were being misrepresented. I think you've misrepresented mine. I did not call the bean counters mean or evil. I said that were not; I said they were willfully blind to the human costs--they did not want to make the connection between their workplace conditions and what was happening to their workers; they preferred the comfortable (for them) status quo to the disruptive reality. This isn't an uncommon tendency for humans--we rationalize and rationalize until we can't anymore. Then we either act, or we lie. They decided to lie.