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You are making the exact blinkered US-centric assumptions I'm poking fun at. US companies may be duty bound to put increasing owner value above other considerations, but fortunately out here in most of the world, your law does not apply to us, and our laws are not modelled on yours.

I can assure you, for example, that in many nations companies can legally have many reasons for choosing not to export a product to a specific country that don't make any reference to profit. Again: all you know is your laws. Your laws are not our laws. It's a big world out here, not encompassed by the mores of the nation you just happen to come from.




I'm not talking about laws. I'm talking about the nature of a normal to large corporation: to sell things.

They don't have to maximize profit at the cost of other things. But if they want to ignore a huge sales venue, they should justify it.

Justifying isn't some huge bar. It's due diligence. If you have many reasons, then write them down.


Shimmy, shimmy. I can't be bothered with your incurious chauvinistic prattle and am done with you.


Okay, have fun projecting so hard over a very simple claim that companies should have justifications for their actions.

You've been repeatedly arguing against a strawman where I want to force companies to make certain decisions. But that's not what I said at any point.




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