alt Hacker NewsSkeptical is a light way to put it. It is essentially a forgone conclusion that once a company IPOs, any veil that they might be working for the global good is entirely lifted.
A publicly traded company is legally obligated to go against the global good.
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giwook • today at 5:01 PM
Fair point.
Call me an optimist, but I'm still holding out hope that Amodei is and still can do the right thing. That hope is fading fast though.
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WarmWash • today at 5:05 PM
The problem is that people equate money to power and power to evil.
So no matter what, if you do something lots of people like (and hence compensate you for), you will be evil.
It's a very interesting quirk of human intuition.
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It’s not really, companies like GM used to boast about how well they treated their employees and communities. It was Jack Welch and a legion of like-minded arseholes who decided they should be increasingly richer no matter who or what paid for it.