They will screw you over for a few extra quid, they will cut a few legal corners if they have to and they will export alot of money to foreign bank accounts to avoid tax, they break the law constantly but do it smartly and have the money to employ lawyers to hold back any case brought against them, so aren't businessmen just criminals?
2006-12-18 21:29:15 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Yes I've had to work around alot of them and they don't care about anyone not even their own families.
2006-12-18 21:37:54 · answer #1 · answered by Sean 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Although businessmen and lawyers get a bad rap, the culpability is not as cut and dried as it seems.
For one, a business that adheres to sound principal, that adapts and subscribes to the laws of the land, whose products benefit and enrich not only its board members but its customers and the greater community, is beneficial to society, providing it with the goods and services that the society demands. The same is true for lawyers.
Where businessmen and lawyers get a bad rap is from a confluence of different factors. One, the law is only as good as the people make it. Buying timber from endangered rain forests can be either legal or illegal depending upon the opinions and peccadillioes of Congress. And what is illegal at one point (buying and consuming alchohol) can become legal later on. Sometimes the process of finding out what is 'legal' and 'right' is just that, a process.
Secondly, businesses operate according to the law but always at the fringes, because at the fringes of legality is where the money is made. This is because even if the company you start is a t-shirt printing company, what might allow you to buy your t-shirts in bulk is the fact that it is legal (and cheaper) to buy from Malaysia, even though sweatshop conditions have been reported on the news. If you buy your t-shirts elsewhere, then you have to raise prices, which means cheaper stores undercut you and steal your business.
And because a company is a conglomeration of individuals, it doesn't take many individuals to use the company for nefarious ends. How many Enron employees were hardworking, honest and customer friendly, but who were just as screwed, when some of the corporate big heads got greedy? Sometimes, all it takes is one 'ambitious' individual to ruin a company.
Lawyers are under the same constraints. They HAVE to work within the legal system, but every lawyer works to push the very edges of what is legal in order to influence the outcome. However, what is ethical or not changes with the times. What is ethical one moment might be not the next, and vice versa. Does this mean it was an ethical practice to begin with: No. Again, it is the process of realizing not only what is legal but what is good and what is true/right.
It was once legal to sell concoctions that were of a dubious or downright nefarious medical value. Those who believed they were making magic potions and whatnot, even if they didn't work, were still legally obeying the law. When the law changed (and the FDA was created) the businessmen adapted to the changes.
The same is true with the law. It was once ruled (despite our Declaration of Independence) that blacks have no legal rights in this country. Any lawyer, however sympathetic and/or outraged against racial injustice, had little legal recourse if a black man came up to him and asked to be represented.
For the most part, companies and lawyers play by the rules up to the extent that the rules allow, simply because the general public doesn't want to buy from a company that breaks the law. Therefore, it is the confluence of businessmen, lawyers and politicians who help determine how corporation and government work and how well they follow the rules, and what the rules are.
But they wouldn't be making the money they do if consumers didn't buy from them. A criminal makes no money in business if nobody buys from them.
2006-12-18 22:09:09 · answer #2 · answered by Khnopff71 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is not the businessmen...
It is the politicians...
The big business buys politicians by making donations to their party towards their election campaign.
Before doing so...the big business decides which party is more likely to have laws which favour their business...so that they can make more money.
The big business is not screwing anyone...they operate to the letter of the law. The government is the one screwing us.
Yes...they are some businesses who break the law...but they usually get caught...which is the reason why you know about them.
One has to remember that we own our survival to every business. Without businesses...none of us would have a job.
2006-12-18 21:51:31 · answer #3 · answered by Aussies-Online 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No... there is still such thing as fair business, you know. You can't blame anyone for putting the prosperity of themselves and their family in front of that of a stranger. When it comes to screwing people over and ruining peoples lives, I'd say Businessmen are at the bottom of that list. I worry more about lawyers, myself.
2006-12-18 21:32:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
u hjave spoken of of just a hanful, if u dig deeper u will find a lot of them.
The politicians - who do it legally & illegally.
The employees - Who blackmail theit bosses by not foing work, when the most is required.
The Doctors - Who tell u to do a lot of tests, and get a report, when none are required.
The Lawer - Who take the life out of you just to take that money from ur pocket.
The list is still longer ------
Now who is a Mafias or Who are the criminals
Just think !!!!!!!
2006-12-18 21:53:24 · answer #5 · answered by Venkatesh V S 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. A business who breaks the law is a criminal. However, a criminal is by his own title/definition a criminal because he's broken the law - otherwise we don't consider them a criminal.
Businessmen = Businessmen
Businessmen breaking law = criminal
Criminal = someone who breaks the law
Not all businessmen are criminal. All criminals are criminals, otherwise they're law abiding citizens.
2006-12-18 21:42:25 · answer #6 · answered by DenimGuy555 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes but this is for the normal person and is against the master gov crims
2006-12-18 21:33:35 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
crims are smarter as they usualy skrew the business men, as long as they dont get caught!
2006-12-18 21:32:39 · answer #8 · answered by mrwurzal 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
When you put it like that, yes.
2006-12-18 21:35:34 · answer #9 · answered by saynhope 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
its quite true because businemen are more like mafia than criminals only without using violence...
2006-12-18 21:31:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋