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bombcaryesterday at 3:52 PM2 repliesview on HN

Corporations have to be assumed to be amoral, which means that practically speaking, you can assume they'll tend towards evil.

At least you have to continually monitor them as such.


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armonsteryesterday at 3:55 PM

Corporations should be assumed to act in line with their interests, which is the bottom line. "Morality" isn't the lens that you need to try to view them through to understand their intentions and actions. But yes, their motivations pretty much always lay outside of any moral good due to the nature of them.

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svarayesterday at 4:48 PM

> you can assume they'll tend towards evil.

An unnecessarily cynical take. What this is implying is that, in the absence of any morals, evil provides a selective advantage.

And yet, pro-social behavior has evolved many times independently through natural selection.

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