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Can anyone explain to me how these people sleep at night? I just don’t understand how a company that feeds kids can see a profit rise of 30% as anything other than a damning indictment of the quality of their food and treatment of their workers.
I mean don’t get me wrong, I understand that it’s a business and that a profit is one of the aims of that. My dad was a very successful food manufacturer and had a profitable business in that for a long time. But his key thing was quality - with quality, fair pricing and fair treatment of people came good business. And he stood his ground against the big (Aussie) supermarkets on this and won. I just don’t understand this alternative approach.
@Floppy@mastodon.me.uk@CatherineFlick I think it’s the part where you said profit is “one of” the aims. I think in late-stage capitalist reality it’s the only one, which is pretty tragic.
@Floppy @CatherineFlick I think many forget that any company which isn’t explicitly set up as a not-for-profit, charity, etc., generally is there to make money, it just depends how much and what they sacrifice to do it 
(e.g. the assumption that newspapers are there to report news, rather than being there to make money - so do they then print news because it’s newsworthy, or because it’ll help make more money?)