> And the reason for this is not that the people involved are inherently bad people, it's just that humans react strongly to incentives, and the incentives, at least in our capitalist society, ensure that profit motive will always be paramount. Again, I don't think this is cynical, it's just realistic.

It's not a reflection of reality, and at your age you should know better.

It is indeed because they're bad people. Why? Because there are tons of organizations that do stick to their goals.

They just don't become worth many billions of dollars. They generally stay small, exactly because that's much healthier for society.

> And the reason for this is not that the people involved are inherently bad people, it's just that humans react strongly to incentives

How we respond to incentives is what differentiates us. When 100 random humans are plucked from the earth by aliens and exposed to a set of incentives, they'll get a broad range of responses to them.