58. Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Businesses should do anything they can to make a profit. Use specific reasons and examples to support your position.
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Nowadays, with the fierce competition between manufactures, all of them tend to pursuit the maximizing profits. However, I deny the assertation that businesses should do anything they can to make a profit.
On one hand, the profit of a business is undeniably important in our current society, which is a world make winners benefit more and losers own nothing. In order to survive in the fierce battle, every company spare effort to maintain their advantages in various ways, including bringing new the techniques to lower the costs and advertising to wider the market. For example, in order to maintain the market in China, Coco Cola spend more than 200 thousands dollars on inviting Yaoming and Liuyang as spokespersons. And the reality demonstrates that it is a successful strategy and wins the battle with Pepsis. In a word, company should take necessary actions to make profits.
On the other hand, I cast doubt that whether the action could be anything they can. In the law field, there is no country that authorized any kind of action in its terrier. In other words, any steps taken by any company should be constrained in the legal extent. And in the moral aspect, I'm firmly convinced that manufactures should be taken more social responsibilities other than making profits, because they are the minority who owns the majority treasure of the world. Looking at the Microsoft, the largest software company, spends millions of dollars each year to help the poor get away from famine and poverty. Perhaps this kind of action may not bring any kinds of economical benefits to the company, but just as Gates, the president of Microsoft, claimed, it is the responsibility of Microsoft.
As discussing above, in order to operate a successful company, any president should not forget the law constraint and moral responsibility while maximizing its profit.