alt Hacker NewsAll big successful companies do "something" wrong, thats how they make money. Steal your OSS, not pay taxes, avoid overtime payments, low wages, outsource slavery, destroy the environment, gaslight while they steal your data and subject millions to dark patterns of advertising and marketing, screw over suppliers, intentionally sew discord as a distraction. The list goes on. To me the bigger the company the bigger the red flag.
That’s a very cynical view.
Do the biggest companies not create the most value for the world?
Consider this. If the most successful companies are simply cheating customers, then most consumers are stupid; handing offer their hard-earned money for bad deals and to be exploited.
But most people are not stupid, and most people highly value their money. So, they only buy something because they want what the seller is offering even more than their money. This means that companies create great value because they offer something that people really want.