"Michael 182" wrote in message
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"Scott Draper" wrote in message
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Why does your company continue to unethically take advantage of its
monopoly on US aviation data to squeeze the general aviation community
?

Why is it unethical for a company to maximize its profits?

Ther are times and circumstances when maximizing profits is unethical -
profiteering off Katrina is an obvious example.

Care to define what you mean by "profiteering off Katrina"?

Anytime maximizing profits includes illegal behavior, as dramatically
evidenced by Enron, Adelphia, et al.

Well, yes, ouright theft is, I suppose, one form of profit maximization. :~)

Some argue that exploitation of third world resources/labor leads to
unethical profit taking.

And wealth creation in areas that are otherwise cesspools... :~(


But building a company that markets and distributes aviation data, and
then finding yourself in the enviable position of having very little
competition or sales limitations except market elasticity is obviously not
unethical.

As long as you have two parties _voluntarily_ (uncoerced by either one of
the parties) engaging in a transaction, it's ethical.