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tclambert

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35. If I were CEO of an oil company and only cared about chasing profit,

Mon Dec 15, 2014, 01:28 PM

Dec 2014

I would have some underling order his underling's underling to look into ways of aiding ISIS head south to threaten the oil fields. Any threat to the Iraqi oil fields in the south also threatens the Iranian, Kuwaiti, and ultimately Saudi oil fields. They are all pretty close together. A remote threat to those will send shivers through the oil market and raise prices.

So, really, knowing that, if all I care about is making profit for my corporation, don't I have an obligation, a professional responsibility, to help an insurgent group that could indirectly raise the price of oil? Of course, I have to maintain plausible deniability for my role in it so some do-gooders don't try to accuse me of "evil" and "treason" and "villainy" just because they don't share the same profit-based ethical system I do.

In profit we trust.

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