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Define 'bad'. Or indeed 'ethical'. There's an awful lot of abstracted money around that sees (to the extent abstractions can see anything) Uber and its boss as
by Applejinx 9y ago
Define 'bad'. Or indeed 'ethical'. There's an awful lot of abstracted money around that sees (to the extent abstractions can see anything) Uber and its boss as the best thing ever, specifically because all the behavior is designed to increase money.
If all that energy was put towards a goal of tormenting red-headed pipe-fitters and their families, there's no way things would have gone on this long. But it's to increase money, so by definition UNTIL it fails and all the money is lost, it's not simply okay but admirable and to be emulated.
If the money buys immunity from any such accountability…
- NelsonMinar 9y agoI used to work at Google in the "Don't be evil" era. We had many internal discussions about how it was hard to define "evil". That's part of the purpose of the deliberately ambiguous statement, to state a general principle without getting bogged down in minutiae. The purpose of the guidance is to force people to have ethical discussions, not to answer the question. Uber is going to collapse under the weight of all its illegal and unethical behavior. All that money is going to evaporate.