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Duty isn't morality though. I read the article, it is pretty convoluted and disjointed as to what he actually meant specifically about morality, but it seemed he was saying that it was about the business surviving and sustaining jobs? It's hard to tell. Either way, you can often equate a business surviving to making money for shareholders (and themselves). Certainly not easy to separate the two things, and also it is easy to hide behind a desire to do good for others while lining your own pockets.
Yeah, you can make a quasi-moral argument along the lines of equity and investment - making sure that the money put toward this purpose is most maximized. I don't think it's all that persuasive, but it's a standard line of thinking. He backed off of the "morality" language because, well, it's dicey normatively.
He really went off the rails, in my opinion, when he said that the real immoral behavior was in the "incompetent and corrupt FDA." Yeah, fuck that guy.