Blockchains may provide the operating system for a new world, but what will that world look like? We dream of a crypto utopia, but the reality has been less hopeful. Proof of work is an environmental nightmare. Proof of stake formalizes the oversized influence of the rich. Since IPDB’s inception, we’ve been trying to create a system of governance that delivers the future we want. This is what we’ve learned.
Greg McMullen, Executive Director of IPDB, presents his 9984 Summit: Blockchain Futures for Developers, Enterprises and Societies keynote on how to think about blockchain governance.
Blockchains may provide the operating system for a new world, but what will that world look like? We dream of a crypto utopia, but the reality has been less hopeful. Proof of work is an environmental nightmare. Proof of stake formalizes the oversized influence of the rich. Since IPDB’s inception, we’ve been trying to create a system of governance that delivers the future we want. This is what we’ve learned.
Greg McMullen, Executive Director of IPDB, presents his 9984 Summit: Blockchain Futures for Developers, Enterprises and Societies keynote on how to think about blockchain governance.
Business EthicsSummer 2022 (1)Week 5, Lecture 3ChaeyoungVannaSchrader3
Business Ethics
Summer 2022 (1)
Week 5, Lecture 3
Chaeyoung Paek
In today’s class…
Contrary to Ian Maitland, Denis Arnold and Laura Hartman argue for the necessity to regulate sweatshops, based on the value of human rights.
There will be one in-class activity at the end of the class.
Argument for sweatshops
Denis Arnold and Laura Hartman point out that there’s a utilitarian intuition behind the argument for creating & maintaining sweatshops.
For instance, Maitland argues that paying higher wages for sweatshop workers (which, by definition, would make sweatshops disappear) may decrease workers’ utility (or happiness).
Arnold and Hartman argue that this utilitarian assumption cannot be maintained when we consider how basic human rights may be violated under improper labor conditions.
Cf. Preference Utilitarianism
We’ll see one argument for sweatshops that Arnold & Hartman reconstruct in their article: the utilitarian argument for sweatshops.
It is based on the main thesis of Preference Utilitarianism, which is a special kind of Utilitarianism.
Preference Utilitarianism:
An agent ought to do X if and only if X maximizes the degree to which X achieves whatever is desired or preferred.
(ex) Experience Machine + Desire fulfillment
Argument for sweatshops
The utilitarian argument for sweatshops
P1. We have a moral obligation to perform actions that best enhance the preference satisfaction of the most people possible.
P2. Creating and maintaining sweatshops best enhances the preference satisfaction of those affected by sweatshops (sweatshop employees, via higher wages than they would otherwise receive; consumers, via lower prices for sweatshop goods; and MNCs and their shareholders, through lower labor costs).
C. Therefore, as many sweatshops as possible should be created and maintained.
Against the utilitarian argument
Arnold and Hartman reject the utilitarian argument for two reasons:
Proper understanding of basic human rights provides a better foundation for evaluating the ethical legitimacy of sweatshops.
Creating & maintaining sweatshops with regulations can yield better results than doing so without any restriction.
By (1), they reject (P1); by (2), they reject (P2).
Basic human rights & Sweatshops
Q. What are human rights?
Human rights are moral rights that apply to all persons.
(ex) The right to life/freedom from slavery
When X is basic human right, all people have moral obligation to refrain from interfering with X.
(ex) The right to life + Murder
Some of the basic human rights include freedom and subsistence.
Basic human rights & Sweatshops
The right to freedom = the right to control one’s own behavior with knowledge of the relevant circumstances and without undue external pressure.
(ex) What to do after you get your bachelor’s degree
The right to freedom includes other, more specific rights, such as the right to physical security, the right to freedom of belief and expression, and the right to freedom of associatio ...
A Thinking Person's Guide to Using Big Data for Development: Myths, Opportuni...Junaid Qadir
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IEEE Technology and Society Magazine 38(3):82-90
DOI: 10.1109/MTS.2019.2930273
September 2019
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335745617_Caveat_Emptor_The_Risks_of_Using_Big_Data_for_Human_Development
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The corporation chapter 3
1. CHAPTER 3 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1) Explain what an externality is.
2) Why did Patricia Anerson sue General Motors?
3) GM calculated that it could save how much money per automobile if it allowed
people to die in fuel-fed fires rather than alter the design of vehicle to avoid such
fires?
4) The jury awarded Anderson & her children how much money in compensatory
damages?
5) The jury awarded Anderson & her children how much money in punitive
damages?
6) How does the "science of exploitation" apply to Nike?
7) What happened in the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory disaster?
8) What was passed in 1938 by President Roosevelt's administration that banned
sweatshops, child labor, & industrial homework?
9) What % of all apparel operations in NYC are sweatshops?
10) A US Department of Labor survey found that the overall level of compliance
with the minimum wage, overtime, & child labor requirements of the Fair Labor
Standards Act is what %?
2. WHY DOES OUR SOCIETY HAVE LAWS & RULES?
OBJECTIVE VS SUBJECTIVE DECISION MAKING
OBJECTIVE:
-NOT INFLUENCED BY PERSONAL FEELINGS OR PREJUDICE.
SUBJECTIVE:
-INFLUENCED BY PERSONAL FEELINGS OR PREJUDICE.
3. ETHICS
-A SYSTEM OF MORAL PRINCIPLES RELATING TO HUMAN CONDUCT.
-A BRANCH OF PHILOSOPHY.
-KNOWN AS “MORAL PHILOSOPHY.”
-SEEKS TO ADDRESS HOW A MORAL OUTCOME CAN BE ACHIEVED IN A
SPECIFIC SITUATION.
MORALITY:
-A CODE OF CONDUCT ABOUT WHAT IS RIGHT VS WHAT IS WRONG.
RATIONALIZE:
-TO INVENT PLAUSIBLE EXPLANATIONS FOR ACTIONS, DECISIONS, ETC.
4. THE GOLDEN RULE
“ONE SHOULD TREAT OTHERS AS ONE WOULD LIKE
OTHERS TO TREAT ONESELF, & ONE SHOULD NOT TREAT
OTHERS IN WAYS THAT ONE WOULD NOT LIKE TO BE
TREATED.”
11. CORPORATIONS LEGALLY ARE A “PERSON” BUT THEY ARE NOT
PHYSICALLY A PERSON.
THEY DO NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO MAKE ETHICAL/MORAL DECISIONS,
BUT………………..
PEOPLE DO.
12. WHAT IS AN EXTERNALITY?
-AN EFFECT ON AN ENTITY FROM A DECISION THAT THE
ENTITY DID NOT PLAY A ROLE IN MAKING & WHOSE
INTERESTS WERE NOT TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT WHEN
MAKING THE DECISION.
WHAT ENTITIES ARE AFFECTED BY EXTERNALITIES?
1) EMPLOYEES
2) CUSTOMERS
3) ENVIRONMENT
CLIP 4: EXTERNALITIES
14. COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS:
-“A REPORT GENERATED TO DETERMINE HOW WELL, OR HOW POORLY, A
PLANNED ACTION WILL TURN OUT.”
1) IDENTIFIES, QUANTIFIES, & ADDS ALL THE POSITIVE FACTORS (BENEFITS).
2) IDENTIFIES, QUANTIFIES, & SUBTRACTS ALL THE NEGATIVE FACTORS (COSTS).
3) THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE 2 INDICATES WHETHER THE PLANNED ACTION
IS ADVISABLE.
15. WHAT IS THE “SCIENCE OF EXPLOITATION?”
“A BUSINESS PRACTICE WHEREBY CORPORATIONS TAKE ADVANTAGE
OF CHEAP, FOREIGN LABOR IN ORDER TO MANUFACTURE PRODUCTS
CHEAP & MAXIMIZE PROFIT.”
