..by your logic...any >for profit< enterprise is evil, regardless.

Nice way to setup your straw man there.

But you know, generally small buisness, such as pizza shops, are not publicly held corporations. And of the minority that are many are done that way simply because our tax and legal system heavily favors such.

Nor did I say that every action of a corporation is evil. The question of any specific factory closing being evil depends on many factors. The point is that the questin of the morality of the closing won't even be considered the managers of the company. Their only concern is the profit margin of the company.

It may be that closing one factory might save the company and there for save other small towns. But insofar as a manager let such thinking guide their actions they would be a bad manager.

Jay