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    Firms should ameliorate serious problems such as poverty,... — Carmelics
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    Firms should ameliorate serious problems such as poverty, conflict, and environmental degradation.

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    • 1.There are serious problems in the world, such as poverty, conflict, and environmental degradation.
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    • 2.Any agent with the resources and knowledge necessary to ameliorate these problems has a moral responsibility to do so, assuming the costs incurred on themselves are not excessively high.
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    • 3.Firms have the resources and knowledge necessary to ameliorate these problems without incurring excessively high costs.
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    • 1.Firms are constituted by fiduciary obligations to shareholders, and redirecting resources toward social amelioration violates this foundational duty.
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    • 2.Friedman's separability thesis holds that managers acting as social agents spend others' money without consent, constituting a form of unaccountable taxation.
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    • 3.When corporate agents unilaterally redefine firm purpose toward social ends, they usurp democratic authority over resource allocation properly belonging to political institutions.
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    • 1.P2's 'capacity implies responsibility' principle, if applied universally, generates demandingness objections that collapse the agent-relative prerogatives central to moral agency.
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    • 2.Garrett Hardin and institutional economists argue that diffuse corporate responsibility for systemic problems like poverty produces collective action failures worse than targeted regulatory regimes.
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    • 3.Assigning remedial duties to firms based on capacity rather than causal contribution, as argued by Iris Marion Young's critics, misidentifies the proper locus of structural injustice remediation.
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    Many writers give broadly consequentialist reasons for CSR. The arguments tend to go as follows: (1) there are serious problems in the world, such as poverty, conflict, environmental degradation, and so on; (2) any agent with the resources and knowledge necessary to ameliorate these problems has a moral responsibility to do so, assuming the costs they incur on themselves are not excessively high; (3) firms have the resources and knowledge necessary to ameliorate these problems without incurring
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    There are serious problems in the world, such as poverty, conflict, and environm...
    When corporate agents unilaterally redefine firm purpose toward social ends, the...
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