"I'm not responsible for some empty sentiment. My duty is to make the company's financial reports look prettier."
"If the nation thinks this is wrong, you can go to Congress and pass a law to ban our exports. Since no law forbids it, my pursuit of profit is perfectly justified."
These words tore away all pretense of hypocrisy.
'This is capital's most common talking point,'
Roosevelt said in Leo's mind.
'It shifts all moral baggage onto the legislators.'
'Capitalists believe that if the state fails to close legal loopholes, that's a failure of the state apparatus, not the shamelessness of capital.'
Roosevelt's tone grew sterner.
'This rhetoric completely ignores externalities.'
'While they're raking in global profits, they are wildly overdrawing on the invisible costs covered by their home country.'
