Passage 2A famous  cliche  maintains that "the bu

Passage 2A famous  cliche  maintains that "the business of business is business". The business of business is not government, charity, or social welfare. Nor, the cliche implies, is its morality  But what does "the business of business is business" mean? To get some perspective on the  question, we must look beyond our own society. What we find is this? what is considered to  be business and its business varies from society to society. In Japan, the business of large  corporations is not only to produce goods but to care for the firm's employees — in effect, to  guarantee them lifetime employment. Paternalism is thus part of the business of business in  Japan, in a way that it is not in the United States. In the former Soviet Union, private    ownership of the means of production, that is, of companies and factories, was prohibited by    law. Nevertheless, there were in Russia factories, offices, stores, and goods. But business    there was a state affair, not a private affair. What constitutes business varies from society to    society. The question of what business per se is, and what its proper concern is, is a social question, one that must be answered in a social context.In the United States, the mandate to business was initially rather simple. People wanted   goods to be as plentiful, as good, and as cheap as possible. Those interested in producing them   were given relatively free rein under competitive conditions. Some businesses succeeded and  grew? others failed. As problems developed, regulations were introduced by law. These laws   regulated working conditions, protected children, prevented monopolistic practices, and preserved the environment. The regulations frequently represented the moral concerns of the American   people. The business of business was, and is, decided by the people of each society. What practices are or are not to be tolerated are not eternal givens, nor are the determinations of what is or is not acceptable to a society. To some extent, the mandate to business also sets the limits to its proper activity, and to what is not socially tolerable. The limits are not set by business or by those who run business, even though some of them act as if they were. The limits imposed on business and the demands made upon business by society are frequently moral ones. A business may ignore the moral demands of an individual, but it can hardly ignore the moral demands of a whole society, because it is both part of that society and dependent on it, even though it serves society.There is increasing evidence that the mandate to business in the United States is changing and that businesses are increasingly expected to weigh more than financial factors in their actions. What the business of business is, in fact, is itself a moral decision, and one that is socially made and implemented. Insofar as business is a part of society, it rightfully has a voice in arriving at the social determination of what its business is. 

Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A、the United States, mandate to business was and still is very simple.
B、Business is independent of society.
C、The business of business is a moral decision socially made and implemented.
D、Business people in the United States regard financial factors as the essence of business.
【正确答案】：C