Profits are the reason for a company to exist. Management has a near-sacred responsibility to those with a stake in the enterprise to maximize profitability. The people who have taken the risks to create an enterprise and those who likewise risk considerable sums as shareholders must be rewarded. It's the American way and no other system has come close to achieving that kind of productivity and return on investment.
What needs to happen is to get government off the back of business so that they can enjoy the rewards of true, unfettered capitalism. The free market is an extraordinary invention since it promotes outstanding efficiencies for business and a rich assortment of services and goods for consumers at competitive prices.
As I noted a few posts back in this thread, American jobs will come home if the minimum wage is abolished and the thuggery of Big Labor is eliminated. Likewise the confiscatory taxation at the corporate level allied with regulations is a tremendous burden on business.
Corporations would doubtlessly prefer to stay in America but since the era of Reagan, the government has made "made in America" anything but a viable proposition.
Profits are the reason for a company to exist.
Did ya see the "Regardless of consequences" part?
No?
So if it means selling out our country to the highest bidder, that's A-OK?
How'd that work out America?