Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2014-01-15-Speech-3-296-000"
| Predicate | Value (sorted: default) |
|---|---|
| rdf:type | |
| dcterms:Date | |
| dcterms:Is Part Of | |
| dcterms:Language | |
| lpv:document identification number |
"en.20140115.36.3-296-000"2
|
| lpv:hasSubsequent | |
| lpv:speaker | |
| lpv:spoken text |
"Mr President, this report is about extending procurement to cover non-economic criteria, allowing firms to factor in things like Fairtrade coffee and so on. I want to make an unpopular point, which is against the spirit of the age. The most moral way for a businessman to behave is honestly to maximise his profit and then give whatever he can out of his earnings to charity. I say that it is against the spirit of the age, because our emphasis now is on corporate social responsibility, encouraging people to do things other than maximise their profit: encourage them to have different criteria – charitable, environmental or whatever. But if you think about it, what is happening there is that the proprietor of the firm is shuffling off his social obligations to his suppliers, his customers or his shareholders. He gets to feel good with somebody else’s money. Better by far to drop any pretence about anything except efficiency and then behave as a moral individual.
As Charles Wesley, the founder of Methodism, put it: get all you can, save all you can, give all you can."@en1
|
| lpv:spokenAs | |
| lpv:unclassifiedMetadata | |
| lpv:videoURI |
Named graphs describing this resource:
The resource appears as object in 2 triples