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ChadNauseamyesterday at 7:52 PM1 replyview on HN

That doesn't make much sense to me. How can you blame someone for a problem they didn't cause?


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narnarpapadaddyyesterday at 8:11 PM

Because it’s their job to fix it. If they don’t, the axe falls again.

Humans often think in terms of deontological ethics. Corporations operate in terms of consequentialist ethics, and the only consequence that matters is that the numbers go up.

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