>The "companies exist to make money" trope always earns a hard eye roll from me. Then...what...do they exist for? "We want to cure cancer, and in order to do

>The "companies exist to make money" trope always earns a hard eye roll from me. Then...what...do they exist for? "We want to cure cancer, and in order to do that we need money to fund research, so we need to charge you money for the pills we make". So, you exist to make money. "We want to exert power and influence over the government, so we raise money from donors to buy that influence and lobby the government". So you exist to make money. Etc, etc. HOW you make money as a corporation doesn't change the fact that if you're a company, and not a non-profit or a charity (which are sometimes also just non-taxed companies) you're trying to make money. It's a huge part of the process, and the only thing you can uniformly say the company does. Now people, that's a different story. People are singular and have their own goals. They may not be there just to make money. A company is made of many people, sometimes with conflicting goals. So to say that the company is trying to do X, when 30% of its employees are actively trying to do Y seems rather disingenuous.