58。 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Businesses should do anything they can to make a profit. Use specific reasons and examples to support your position.
When talk about business, we often relate this to making money, say, making profit. "If you want to be well-off, you should do business." We often hear people said like this. So in this point, business makes an important contribution to our society. For example, you can eat in restaurants, buy or sell a house or shop household goods. We cannot deny the positive role which business exerts. But when it comes to "business should do anything to make profit", it is not safe to say all things related to business are positive and good for human world.
Of cause, business needs money to survive and thrive. But if it is necessary for a company to do anything to subsist, I wonder. Especially some strategies may harm our society. For example, in order to make bigger profit, a chemical factory eliminates a sewage processing base. And thus polluted water flows into the local river and contaminate the river. On the one hand, the production cost of that factory is reduced and profit is higher than before. But on the other hand, health condition of the residents is affected by the polluted water. It is not hard to identify which one is more important, profit of the factory or health of the residents. Out of question, the latter has high priority. Under the strict pollution regulation, the strategy of the factory cannot bring it more revenue, but will incur law suit and heavy penalty. Moreover, the fame of the factory will be destroyed by this action. Before implementation every company should consider its actions carefully that could make profit but at the same time could injury the society.
So it is safely to say that business world has some responsibilities for our society. The strategies and actions of a company will result in the negative effects should be abandoned even do so may lose revenue. We must not forget the single aim, a solitary goal of doing business is not making profit, but making a better world. It is no sense that we live in a polluted, wicked, and disorderly world even everyone has a great deal of money. We are not live for money, but for love, for faith and for hope.
I am so upset because there are a lot of fraud related to some companies, such as Enron and WorldCom. But, meanwhile, I am glad to see government and society have taken actions to prevent these negative effects. We cannot blame companies to make profit, as long as they follow the laws, regulations and ethical standards.
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