Bribery and corruption create an opaque atmosphere where nobody knows why decisions are being taken, and for many businesses, this creates a business-unfriendly environment. One cannot conduct normal business in places where you are subject to kidnapping and extortion; however, those larger companies who do go to such places assume a certain amount of annual deaths and personal risk to their employees, and send them anyway. Develop relations with subcontractors willing to take those risks, for example. Develop various kinds of distancing tools to deny that they are exploiting such chaos. Conflict mineral suppliers are daily redirecting rare earth metals from war zones in the Congo elsewhere so they can claim these are all perfectly innocent suppliers for computers and cell phone assembly. So much money is involved that everybody turns a blind eye to the genocide, sexual violence and child slavery (yes, that is he correct term) used by guerrilla operators in those areas of Congo. Apparently this was actively encouraged by Western companies--as I understand it, purely because those methods were *cheaper*, even though the increasing chaos there has finally begun causing uncertainty in the assembly of such components. One could argue similarly on the societal uncertainties in the drug war murders in Mexico. That's got bad enough that cruiselines have simply stopped entering certain ports there, it's simply no longer worth the risk to their tourists. Has that stopped the murders in those towns? How long can these kinds of issues be ignored? The question becomes when larger groups, such as multinational banks and those intertwined governments concerned about economic uncertainties, will have both the political will and power to enforce rules about things like campaign finance reform, transparency in contracts, protection of whistleblowers, and other hallmarks of larger interconnected economic systems. In the meantime, smaller isolated economic cells will continue to get exploited. All you need are the right kinds of tongs, in several senses of that word.
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One could argue similarly on the societal uncertainties in the drug war murders in Mexico. That's got bad enough that cruiselines have simply stopped entering certain ports there, it's simply no longer worth the risk to their tourists. Has that stopped the murders in those towns? How long can these kinds of issues be ignored?
The question becomes when larger groups, such as multinational banks and those intertwined governments concerned about economic uncertainties, will have both the political will and power to enforce rules about things like campaign finance reform, transparency in contracts, protection of whistleblowers, and other hallmarks of larger interconnected economic systems.
In the meantime, smaller isolated economic cells will continue to get exploited. All you need are the right kinds of tongs, in several senses of that word.