There is one and only one social responsibility of business — to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits as long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception and fraud ~Milton Friedman
Milton Friedman intended this statement to encapsulate business ethics standards and while this view might ring positively for those who believe capitalism can produce ethical operators, the reality of unethical practices and corruption denies this illusion.
Meet the bastards of business, profit-at-all-costs, bottom-line thinkers who continue to prove ethics and morality have no place in commerce.
