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human
CMV: No large business (Google, Amazon, etc.) actually does anything out of the goodness of their heart and it's all for publicity, so no one should be applauding them.

Google has been thanking essential workers all week on the google homepage. Today is delivery people. Yesterday was public transit workers. 

But it's all a sham.

I don't get why people are commending them for acknowledging these people when they are solely doing it for publicity and to look good. I feel like there's nothing altruistic going on and there's no "Leslie Knope" that works at fortune 500 companies that cares about the world and it's people, and that it's all just something they can point at later and say, "Look, we did a good thing, so you can't criticize us for 'XYZ'."

I feel like this applies to charities as well. I don't round up at the grocery store for X charity every once in a while so I can bring it up at my family dinner as a talking point about myself. So why are people impressed with any large company for their donations to charity when it's all for publicity?

**TLDR: No one in big business actually cares about those people they pretend to care about, so why does anyone care when they do anything?**
gpt
Companies do what makes money. 

If being good, charitable, and kind is what is profitable, then that is what companies will do. 

If being greedy, evil, and selfish is what is profitable, then that is what companies will do. 

Therefore, as a consumer, it is imperative to financially reward companies when they do social good, as well as financially punish companies (such as boycott) when they perform social ills. 

As you say, all they do, is make money. But if they look out at the world, and see that being generous and kind is what makes them money, then they will do that. Therefore, we ought to reward companies for being good social citizens. (And continue punishing those that continue to act poorly).