A Brief Overview: Unethical Practices Hurt Global Community

In principle, healthy business competitions at the international level serve the interests of consumers by improving the quality of products at reduced costs. At the same time unfair business practices driven solely by profit motives, although seemingly attractive on a short-term basis, may be a detriment to all parties in the long run. Many of the foreign steel producers import cheap iron ores from developing countries where miners and local labors are often subject to unacceptable working conditions at pitifully low wages. Many of these companies are also constantly violating environmental pollution control standards. Unethical business practices hurt both local and foreign communities; while Bethlehem and neighboring areas lost its major source of revenue and employment, the unabated environmental degradation and suffering of working people a world away continue to damage communities throughout the world.

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