Originally posted by Mooncatt So if you owned MS shares in your retirement account, I take it you'd be first in line to cash it all out (even if it means taking a big tax hit) and donate 100% of those funds to the lawsuit award?
You do know ethical funds make just as high returns as businesses like Microsoft that have just nasty corporate records. Apple and Microsoft both have teams of corporate lawyers at work all the time. Many of the organizations I've been involved with have divested of corporate stocks like Microsoft years ago, so ya, you made your choice live with it.
I get so tired of greedy corporate types complaning when they get burned because they made bad choices, as if the rest of society should cover their bad choice. It's all free market blah, blah, blah, until they get caught cheating. Then their entitlement comes out and what they propose is corporate welfare. My own knowledge of Microsoft and Apple means I wouldn't take a return on investment from either of them. I get so tired of these rich entitled arrogant investors, who claim they deserve return on their investment, whether they are ethical or not. No one has less of my respect than the investors in companies are benefitting from raping the earth, slave labor, child labour and human rights abuses. They all deserve to burn in hell, and if there is a hell, I hope they do. If you value your pension, make sure it isn't kept afloat by abusing others, or unethical resource companies. You make your choice, and you live with it.