Some people believe that corporations have a responsibility to promote the well-being of the societies and environments in which they operate. Others believe that the only responsibility of corporations, provided they operate within the law, is to make as much money as possible.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
Corporations are controversial in the news. Critics attack their profit seeking motives, while proponents say that they can still do good. I find that corporations have made great accomplishments that ultimately benefited society, but only if it benefits their bottom line in some way.
Corporations must be able to delight consumers in order to exist. While Amazon.com is on track to become the most profitable company in history, it could only accomplish this feat by providing a service that consumers needed: offering a wide variety of goods that can quickly be delivered to customers. Customers no longer needed to waste time visiting different stores to find a product they need. Now, they can check Amazon’s website to see if it’s available and have it delivered within 2 days. This convenience has made it easier for people to quickly obtain the things they need no matter where they live.
In San Francisco, tech companies have made a commitment to invest in solutions that alleviate the problems created by their monetary success. Salesforce recognized that the rapid increase in its workforce has worsened the city’s housing crisis. The CEO recently unveiled a plan to invest in affordable housing and committed billions of dollars to funding it. Salesforce’s investment will improve the quality of life in San Francisco by building affordable housing, showing that seeking profit is not Salesforce’s only motive.
Amazon and Salesforce have shown that they can do good for society, but only if it benefits their financials. Amazon offers a service that’s convenient for consumers not out of the kindness of its heart, but in order to generate profits for shareholders. Similarly, Salesforce would not have made its commitment to affordable housing unless it knew that improving the quality of life of its employees can increase their productivity.
Seeking profits and doing good appear to be mutually exclusive goals. When considered separately, the two sides of the debate tell an incomplete story. Amazon and Salesforce do seek to be profitable in order to fulfill their obligations to shareholders. However, they know that they have to satisfy society’s needs in order to sustain profits. The most successful companies can strike the right balance between these two goals.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 15, column 435, Rule ID: WHITESPACE_RULE
Message: Possible typo: you repeated a whitespace
Suggestion:
... right balance between these two goals.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, similarly, so, still, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 7.0 19.5258426966 36% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 12.4196629213 97% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 45.0 58.6224719101 77% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 12.9106741573 39% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1982.0 2235.4752809 89% => OK
No of words: 366.0 442.535393258 83% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.41530054645 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.37391431897 4.55969084622 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0442946149 2.79657885939 109% => OK
Unique words: 201.0 215.323595506 93% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.549180327869 0.4932671777 111% => OK
syllable_count: 614.7 704.065955056 87% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 1.0 4.38483146067 23% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 23.0359550562 78% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 44.0136342512 60.3974514979 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.1 118.986275619 83% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.3 23.4991977007 78% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.25 5.21951772744 43% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 5.13820224719 58% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.83258426966 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.148044316453 0.243740707755 61% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0500807191332 0.0831039109588 60% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0469828222587 0.0758088955206 62% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0896451804433 0.150359130593 60% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0478154145704 0.0667264976115 72% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.2 14.1392134831 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 48.8420337079 92% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 12.1743820225 94% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 12.1639044944 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.97 8.38706741573 107% => OK
difficult_words: 103.0 100.480337079 103% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 9.0 11.8971910112 76% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 11.2143820225 82% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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