(12 Sep 2021, 8:43 am)tcts24 wrote Asda has no responsibility to feed starving families. Which is where food banks and the relevant authorities step in. Stagecoach has no responibility to provide a bus to get me Stockton to Ludworth if I decided to go for a few drinks. In both cases and in every commercial organisation the two responsibilities are to provide a profit for its owners and stay within regulations. If any further non profitable service is required it's up to the relevant social authorities to ensure it's provided, usually at a cost to the public in one way or another. That's simply the way capitalim works.
And look at the problems it creates?
Those starving families a by-product of it...
But aye, keep the status quo and allow businesses designed to benefit shareholders do their own thing. Maybe leeching off the taxpayer at the same time.
I mean, commercial risk is surely linked to capitalism too. Yet here we are, with those companies taking very little commercial risk.