Stay skeptical article

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This was an interesting article. I tend to be more of a skeptical person in nature and have always been taught to be skeptical when reading things online. I was honestly a little skeptical reading this as I found something that they said about Gates to be wrong, I will discuss that below. Becuse business is constantly growing and changing it does help to be skeptical of new businesses, practices and even the people involved that you may work with/for in the futrue. 

Christian O'Christiansen, the writer of this article did make a good point about social responsibility and that more owners and CEO's do need to be more socially responsible in what they do as a person and what their company does. This ties in with what I found out about Gates and their social responsibility that is wrong.O'Christiansen said that  "Gates couldn't care less about human welfare." (O'Christiansen) I found this interesting because Gates and his foundation does a lot of work that betters human welfare. On their website, they say that have grants towards gender equality, global development, global growth & opportunity, global health programs, and global policy & advocacy. How could someone with a foundation that gives grants towards a lot of global issues, care less about the welfare of humans? It does not make sense.

With the above information, this is why I was a bit skeptical with the article itself, but again I was taught to be skeptical of what I read online. But in the end, social responsiblity is a big part of being an owner and CEO of a company, organization or business and if more people want to that happen, They need to start looking for people that come from a socially responsible business to help them or start doing research on how to change what they are doing now, to something that is socially responsible.


O'Christiansen, C. “When Faced with so-Called 'Progressive Business', Stay Skeptical: Aeon Ideas.” Aeon, Aeon Magazine, 12 Dec. 2022, https://aeon.co/ideas/when-faced-with-so-called-progressive-business-stay-skeptical.

“Foundation Fact Sheet (at a Glance).” Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/foundation-fact-sheet.


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