- ENRON
- Ernie Madoff
- ECONOMIC MELTDOWN
- SKYHIGH COMPENSATION and BONUSES to a few
- Deceptive Advertisement. Case of pure Juice drink with pomegranate juice in USA.
- 50% OFF common ads; Off what? Very common practice
- Fine prints in ads;
- Deceptive packaging (examples);
- Oranges and grapes at train stations in India.
- Tooth paste packaging
- Cinnamon Stick and many other packaging
- Oranges and grapes at train stations in India.
- Business Schools did not teach courses on Business Ethics. Thus, they have created many of their graduates trained in maximizing profits/returns instantly and by any means.
- Only recently, business Schools have started offering courses in ethics but still in India, not many schools do.
Sayings by: MAHATMA GANDHI
That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values.
Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.
There is sufficient in the word for man’s need but not for man’s greed.
A businessman who lies and cheats his simple minded and ignorant customers cannot hope to be saved.
Business without a morality is a deadly sin.
While one could write not just one, but many books on of all these topics, in this chapter I will touch upon only a selected few. All of the included topics havestrong footprints of himsa; in fact some of them amount to white-collar crime and colossal himsa.