OnMoralityInBusiness

Quora Answer : Does Ashley Madison strike any of you as having the most immoral business model, of any, in the western world?

Apr 2, 2019

Well apart from the arms industry that enables and promotes war; the oil, coal and gas industry that drives climate change and sponsors denialist disinformation campaigns that prevent us doing anything about it; all the other polluting industries that contribute to the degradation of our environment and health; social media that spies on us and sells our intimate data to advertisers while enabling fake news to undermine democracy and conspiracy theories that make us paranoid and stupid; the advertising / marketing / PR industry which persuades us to be dissatisfied and unhappy; bankers and others in big finance who recklessly gamble with our economic stability in the casinos of Wall Street; mercenaries and hired killers; accountants who specialize in helping their clients avoid paying their fair share of taxes; private prisons which are basically legalized and for profit slavery; "news" companies that pander to and encourage people's basest fears and prejudices with sensationalist and misleading reporting; "intellectual property" lawyers who prevent the free sharing of information; industrial food giants that make us obese with cheap but unhealthy ingedients; and AI researchers who are making humans redundant.

Apart from all those business models, maybe Ashley Madison's is the most immoral in the Western world.