Okay, for the sake of argument, let's assume that companies once had a conscience. I don't believe this to be so, but let's assume it's true.
That over! No more conscience for companies! They can no longer depend on market share, loyalty from employees or even limited competition. Any company of any size is now operating on a global stage with ultra thin profit margins.
Also, Ford may have paid his employees enough to afford his cars, but again, he was weird. He established something called the Sociological Department at Ford. Basically, the company could drop in on any employee, at any time they wished to check out living conditions in the employee's home...again, he was a weird duck.
Actually what you are saying is that so long as we allow 'free trade' as opposed to freedom to trade (quite something else), the mandate becomes one of "subvert your country for profit and ethics be damned". Good, we're on the same page - people with no ethics forcing "no ethics" upon us all against our wishes.
As for ford, he wasn't weird, he was a realist. You can produce a product all you want. If people can't afford it, you have no market. So, Ford payed a wage that allowed people to afford the product and thusly expanded his market by default. Greedy people tend to lose sight of the fact that money hoarded is stale, but money spent grows like wildfire. The Dims have been historically too dimwitted to note that too - or have neglected it to purposedly undermine
the American people. Now you're basically telling me that the no-ethics none of the time crowd (Elitist GOP bluebloods) are really of no more use than the piss-christ.
For all the heat over patriotism with regard to the left, I find it simply amazing that it doesn't bother you all when Companies are unpatriotic. Again, all that matters to your crowd is the profit - oh, and maybe once in a while saying whatever you must for sake of public opinion..
Dare I say if Ford were alive today, he would get eaten like a guppy in a shark tank. That whole assembly line idea allowed him to be so much more efficient that he could afford his excentricities.