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Do Companies Outsource the Dirty Work?
The companies who make stuff for us are run by people, and those people have minds that work like our minds. Just as con humors would rather have companies do the dirty work for them to distance themselves from the ethical consequences of their economic actions, companies often choose to do exactly the same thing. Rather than run a factory that makes clothing under awful working conditions, why not out source the dirty work to some one else? If a reporter annots details of poor working conditions, you can now plausibly say, but i didn't know about it. In ma cases, companies actually do outsource the harm. The folks who care most about ethics might be most willing to turn a blind eye