My first thought was that there might be some sort of risk of a conflict of competing interests between justice and the profit-seeking motive. And because havin

My first thought was that there might be some sort of risk of a conflict of competing interests between justice and the profit-seeking motive. And because having an aggressive sales/marketing team trying to draw in more customers might encourage false accusations. But then I realized I was reacting emotionally and that many law firms already have to advertise and sell themselves and I'm applying some sort of cognitive bias to startups that I'm not applying to the law profession. Which actually caused me to have a more interesting realization: the notion of being a tech entrepreneur is new enough that I think it lacks some sort of slowly built cultural trust in the ethics/morals/impartiality of the profession. People kind of trust doctors, (some) lawyers, judges to be above any sort of greed or profit-seeking immoral actions. But I don't think there's any trust at all that startups will "do the right thing". Obviously big business and corporations have proven to have a poor track record with labor rights, environmental protections, etc. But does the Silicon Valley startup deserve the same distrust? Or should it be given more of the benefit of the doubt? I'm not sure. But it's interesting that we're so quick to jump to mob mentality distrust of tech. Maybe the reason we trust law or medicine is their codified ethics - for lawyers it's the law itself and for medicine it's hundreds of years of cultural tradition and teaching and the Hippocratic oath. And many people and organizations have proposed an equivalent for scientists and engineers. But I somehow think the pace of change and cultural values we have today make it much more difficult to really foster that sort of occupational "culture", at least in the tech world.