ESG – environmental, social, and governance – is a form of investing that searches for companies that think not only about their short term monetary gains, but also their larger impact on society. While not yet typically connected to technology ethics in common discourse, there are many connections indeed, if ethics is understood correctly. Because ethics is the study and practice of how to make good decisions and become better people, every decision made in a corporate context is potentially an ethical one, and if it is a technology company, then tech ethics is in play too. Therefore decisions involving diversity and inclusion, sustainability, human rights, legal compliance, business decisions with social impact, labor decisions, and so on are all connected to ethics in general, and in our increasingly technological society, tech ethics as well.
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