ATT now may (and should) do the perp walk, but don’t hold your breath.
It begins early in B-schools across the country, as business students are constantly urged to dream up “profit centers” (how to squeeze the last nickel out of their customers) to advance their careers, making it clear to the future top executives that the company’s bottom line comes way ahead of the public interest (ads to the contrary).
The whole culture of business in the US is permeated with an antisocial ethic that later produces one scandal after another, and what makes the news is a tip of the iceberg. Living in the current regime of largely unregulated capitalism is like living with a psychopath under the same roof: you turn your back at your own risk. —PGWatch video below (NBC Today Show, 5.19.11)
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