An example of unscrupulous self-interest

In order to occupy the market share, some telecom enterprises in China even used the meanest means-cutting off the communication cables of competitors. The cable cutting incident originated from the fierce competition between China Telecom and China Unicom in Suining City, Sichuan Province. This is not the first time that the two sides have fought hand-to-hand because of the communication market share. The radical tendency of Suining Unicom to develop local telephone service eventually led to the "cable cutting action" of relevant personnel of Suining Branch of China Telecom.

Unicom said that although the cable has been repaired, there have been new problems: on the public telephone to which Suining Telecom belongs, dial Unicom's local telephone, and the meter shows that it is dozens of times higher than the normal charge. "The practice of telecommunications is actually to make people afraid to make local calls of Unicom and indirectly squeeze us." The person in charge of Suining Unicom said. In the primary stage of socialist market economy, there will inevitably be some phenomena beyond the normal social values and moral tolerance. This is the so-called "modernization cost" theory. This theory can explain many practical problems. From the frequent incidents in which employees are searched by foreign businessmen and private entrepreneurs, to the fact that industry bosses are willing to hoard and join hands to limit prices in order to crush competitors to grab huge monopoly profits, and then to the fact that China Telecom Suining Branch cuts the communication cables of other companies at the risk of violating the criminal law, if this business behavior of moral decay and lack of integrity is allowed to spread, the price of modernization is too high.

On the contrary, in the "Microsoft split case" in the United States, the US Department of Justice launched a powerful legal offensive, and the serial lawsuit made Gates feel at a loss. In the face of the government's "difficulties", Microsoft still responded and defended, hired lawyers to cooperate with the investigation, and actively reached an out-of-court settlement with the Ministry of Justice. Even during the lawsuit, the Windows XP operating system, which is popular all over the world, was launched, which made people see the demeanor and self-restraint of giant multinational companies.