Homer Dixon Argumentative Essay

In today’s modern world, there are perpetual amount of changes happening around the world. In 1970, Friedman argued that businesses only have one responsibility, and that is to make as much money as possible (Friedman, 33). As the heads in charge of business are given a set of goals to accomplish by the owners, and most of the times the goal is to only increase profits(Friedman, 33). However, being the social animals there are social responsibilities of humans, which they must carry out independently, not involving the business (Friedman, 33). As per Friedman, “A corporation is an artificial person and may have artificial responsibilities but Business as a whole cannot be said to have responsibilities even in vague sense” (Friedman, 33). Moreover, if head of a company is using profits for social responsibilities he is using employees and shareholders money, which is a kind of tax on them. Where Friedman says, applying taxes in a government job, which implies the head to be a civil servant that he is not. (Friedman,124). Most of the times, companies will cloak their actions by …show more content…
This is primarily because we have a tenuous understanding of the world and what our future holds for us (Homer-Dixon, 10). Homer-Dixon has a different approach, and believes that there are five tectonic stresses, population, energy, environmental, climate, and economic, which severely affect our world (Homer-Dixon, 11). With the addition of multipliers, such as international communication and the growth in power for smaller groups, it makes it much more lethal (Homer-Dixon, 16). In comparison, Homer-Dixon makes it clear that social responsibility is a must, both social and environmental issues must be dealt with accordingly in order to prevent catastrophes. Furthermore, once nature is in trouble, so is society, and this is what determines our survival (Homer-Dixon,