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What part of the business' only imperative is to make money for its shareholders did you not understand? Do you really think any of these people care about any
by devoply 10y ago
What part of the business' only imperative is to make money for its shareholders did you not understand? Do you really think any of these people care about any of the values that you hold dear? Maybe in the back of their minds. Maybe. But business as usual means that you do whatever to make money, and to make more money and increase your social and political power and market share. Sell secrets to governments? Sure. Unless it gets out and causes bad P/R. Then you do damage control, that usually involves scapegoating a someone, but that's just an opportunity for another company to exploit, and there are an infinite number of those and a limited number of consumers.
- idlewords 10y agoThere is not an infinite number of companies like Facebook.
- devoply 10y agoNo there are an infinite number of companies that can be created that service government needs. So someone will. Recently a company cut its staff in half because Twitter and FB cut them out of their streaming service after the media and ACLU reported that they were using to monitor protesters. But what do you want to bet that another company will not take its place? Supply and demand.
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- idlewords 10y agoThere is also not an infinite number of other companies.
- MorePowerToYou 10y agoThe news is fake, but the money is real!
- bertiewhykovich 10y agoAre you arguing that it's /ethical/ for businesses to behave in these ways, or that it's /unsurprising/ that they do so? I'm confused.
- jon-wood 10y agoI understand the argument that businesses exist solely to make money. I dispute that it's true. Businesses are ultimately made up of people, and those people shouldn't be checking their morals at the door, they should be considering whether what they're doing is worth it. We're standing on the cusp of fascism taking hold in both the US and the UK, and I for one am not going to just roll over and build the tools to facilitate that. I just hope we've not gone to far down the road of centralising everything to pull back from the brink.