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> In case anyone replies with "well all companies are bad in some way"... scale is also a factor here.

Even disregarding scale, plenty of large companies providing critical service struggle to find good people to do their job.

Sure, they don't pay as well. But if the rebuttal is that you can't find a honest company that pays equivalent salaries, maybe we should call that wage-gap corruption money.

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There's always going to be a lot of money/profit in amoral behavior that's legal -- while being moral means passing on that behavior and money. It's possible to run a business morally and successfully, but rarely as successfully as someone who runs one amorally.

IME, most people in the US will happily take a job with the extra money at an amoral company, even if the lesser paying job at a moral company would still be enough for a comfortable life. (Folks in the US are very price conscious; I don't know how that compares to other cultures/ societies.)

remind me, why was "do no evil" scrubbed from the mission statement?

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