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Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

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2525 points hownottowrite | 1 comments | 08 Oct 19 09:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.235s | source
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monster2control ◴[08 Oct 19 18:17 UTC] No.21195290[source]▶
Wow, when a government can ruin someone's professional career of choice simply because he or she has an opinion that goes against the People’s Republic, that’s when companies should decide to no longer do business in China.

Sadly, however, the dollar is more powerful than the the moral high ground.

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1. andrepd ◴[08 Oct 19 23:05 UTC] No.21198262[source]▶
>Sadly, however, the dollar is more powerful than the the moral high ground.

That's an intrinsic feature of capitalism. There's no realistic hope of corporations acting morally (hurting their own bottom-lines), because the sole metric that is valued is maximisation of profit. If they ever do something moral it's merely by "accident".

One of Capitalism's many flaws.