It's important to me that the companies I invest in are thinking about the effect they have on the community around them, the environment, their consumers and their employees. When I think about investing, I think about handing my money over to a mega-corporation that already has more money than it needs. The fact that I am reading Jonathan Harr's book A Civil Action doesn't help. It's the true story of a lawyer who tried to prove that two big corporations contaminated the water in a small town causing the death of many children from leukemia. Corporations are bad .
Corporations are bad.
I struggle with my suspicion of large companies because as sketchy as I think they are, I depend on a lot of them. I am a hypocrite. My sister is not a hypocrite. Nike has been accused of exploiting its workers. She doesn't buy sneakers from Nike.