Alison Maitland

I’ve lost count of the number of times I have heard business executives explain how keen they are to “give back” to society. It’s a phrase that makes me wince. The problem is not the “giving”—it’s the giving “back.” What does that mean, exactly? The implication is that it’s fine to take whatever you want, for as long as you want, provided that at some stage you get around to handing a bit of it back. How about not taking so much in the first place?

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