> It's naive to expect big corporations to act morally. Best you can do is force them to act legally.
That's not the only avenue. Big corporations do what their managers, customers, employees and investors want.
Eg restaurants will typically try to serve tasty food, even if there's no legal requirement to do so.
Similarly Google has free lunch, because that's what employees want.
The recent fad for ESG shows that investor can want 'morality', too, and companies are willing to satisfy them. (I quote 'morality', because different people have different ideas, and often people only want the fig-leaf of morality, but not pay the price for what they would consider real morality. See eg greenwashing.) Customers and investors etc get what they are willing to pay for, and that's not necessarily what they say they want.
That's not the only avenue. Big corporations do what their managers, customers, employees and investors want.
Eg restaurants will typically try to serve tasty food, even if there's no legal requirement to do so.
Similarly Google has free lunch, because that's what employees want.
The recent fad for ESG shows that investor can want 'morality', too, and companies are willing to satisfy them. (I quote 'morality', because different people have different ideas, and often people only want the fig-leaf of morality, but not pay the price for what they would consider real morality. See eg greenwashing.) Customers and investors etc get what they are willing to pay for, and that's not necessarily what they say they want.