We get defensive Astroturf:

[pecunium]

In response to this post Underpaid "freelance" work, from six months ago I got (today) someone trying to slip in the last word (which tells me it was probably found in google somehow).

It was, of course, anonymous, and so remains screened. The gist of it was, "dude... we can hire Indians to work for pennies, why should we pay you a living wage?"

I am so not surprised.

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[songblaze.livejournal.com]

There's another problem here - the rule of 'business judgement'.

The board of a publicly traded corp actually has a huge amount of leeway given to what they say is their best business judgement. Obviously this can't include actual illegal practices, but choices to maximize profits in one way rather than another do fall under that catagory - whether or not it works.

Ah, the things law school teaches you about how companies can escape responsibility for shit. *sigh*