If a person did it, we'd call it immoral. When it's a group of persons doing it, we'd call it immoral. But when it's one group of persons doing it -- the employees -- in the name of another group -- the owners -- it's suddenly unethical not to do it? I don't get that.
You don't strike me as having a libertarian bent, but that's essentially the argument used to justify taxes as immoral:
If I steal from my neighbor and distribute the proceeds to the community, including my neighbor and myself, it's theft – immoral.
But if the whole community gets together and vote to steal from my neighbor, and his neighbor, and everyone's neighbor, and split up the proceeds – that's suddenly moral?
Point is, not all arguments generalize from "a person doing it to" to a group doing the same thing collectively.
You don't strike me as having a libertarian bent, but that's essentially the argument used to justify taxes as immoral:
If I steal from my neighbor and distribute the proceeds to the community, including my neighbor and myself, it's theft – immoral.
But if the whole community gets together and vote to steal from my neighbor, and his neighbor, and everyone's neighbor, and split up the proceeds – that's suddenly moral?
Point is, not all arguments generalize from "a person doing it to" to a group doing the same thing collectively.