Tarnished Golden Rule Analysis

In the article The Tarnished Golden Rule written by Lucy P. Marcus she talks about how big corporations are more focused on making a profit then making sure the consumer is happy and able to use the product safely and correctly. Marcus is the CEO of a company called Marcus Venture Counseling the company is built to help companies figure out what to do with there money. So she deals with big CEO’s and their money on a daily basis so she know how they are with their money and how much they care about making more. In this article she tries to convince corporations to become more honest with their consumers, she uses the example of a company called Theranos that caused many people to get wrong information that in some cases caused death. Theranos is a healthcare company that was so focused on making a quick buck they didn’t stop and check their work enough that their blood testing systems were giving out incorrect information.

Theranos is just one example of a business doing this, a more recent example would be the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 that was released and sold to consumers who had no idea that if the phone got to hot it would explode. It took at least 20 different instances of the phones exploding before they finally recalled them all. The bigger corporations are ignoring the consumer and this is causing problems all around the world big and
Marcus makes the argument that corporations are treating us unfairly but she has not looked much into the instances that are actually killing people and businesses are facing little to no time for the killings and suffering of their employees. She says in her article “The reciprocity norm has been virtually omnipresent since the dawn of human civilization. Yet we cannot take it for granted. We must not lose sight of its value, in our personal or professional lives, and we must not allow our leaders to do so, either.” meaning we need to step up and stop these innocent deaths and critical injuries from