alt Hacker News> profit above all else
The world’s biggest philanthropists are American.
The US has for decades invested into charities and human development around the worlds .
> deregulation at all cost
The US has regulations. The Constitution of the United States is the oldest and longest-standing written and codified national constitution in force in the world.
> Christian brained politicians
We have separation of church and state.
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> We have separation of church and state.
You have senators and wannabe senators quoting the bible on TV as their guiding star as we speak right now, give me a break
On top of that you can separate the church and the state all you want, when people like Thiel show up it doesn't matter, these people are deeply troubled, if they were muslim and saying 1/10th of what he says you'd send them to guantanamo
It’s precisely because the corporate mindset of “profit before all else” that certain individuals become fabulously wealthy, enabling their philanthropy.
The Sackler family of opioid infamy were huge philanthropists. Not saying that the AI companies are like Purdue Pharma, but clearly philanthropy does not compensate for societal damage.