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My line of thinking is what makes companies profitable. You can moralize all you want, but the incentives align for a company to maximize on profitability, not

My line of thinking is what makes companies profitable. You can moralize all you want, but the incentives align for a company to maximize on profitability, not on "hey my customers like me". You can't pay for dinner with goodwill, but you can pay for dinner with money. If I'm being so disrespectful, why is my engagement high? Do people love to be disrespected? You're talking about what ought to be, as if it were how it is. It's not that way. It's how I describe. Maybe it should be some other way, but it's not.

inetknght 8y ago
> My line of thinking is what makes companies profitable. I don't disagree, however unfortunate that is. > You can moralize all you want, but the incentives align for a company to maximize on profitability, not on "hey my customers like me". Let's change that so that the incentives do work for being liked. > You can't pay for dinner with goodwill, but you can pay for dinner with money. Somewhere there's some middle ground which represents the failure of our government to incentivize; where companies may still be profitable (even obscenely so), and employees are able to pay for dinner, and customers are happy, and people aren't being manipulated. > If I'm being so disrespectful, why is my engagement high? Do people love to be disrespected? Love to be? No. Most have become desensitized to disrespect such that they expect to be abused by collusion between big corporations and big government. > You're talking about what ought to be, as if it were how it is. It's not that way. It's how I describe. Maybe it should be some other way, but it's not. I'm talking about what ought to be, indeed. I recognize it's not that way. Do you recognize that it doesn't have to be that way? Don't you agree that it should be some other way?
- diminoten 8y ago
  I don't agree with your yanking what I've written out of context... Respond in full please, not line by line.
  - inetknght 8y ago
    I replied to every statement. I don't agree with having super large replies that people start looking for a tl;dr
    - diminoten 8y ago
      What you're doing is toxic. Learn to respond to the argument being made, not the literal words being used
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LaGrange 8y ago
> If I'm being so disrespectful, why is my engagement high? Do people love to be disrespected? There is a large difference between what people "want" (at a given moment) and "like." It's very much possible — and I'm pretty sure you're currently advocating it — to make people "want" things they don't actually like. Yeah, it's a weird glitch in our brains. Also, you are making a very good case for destroying capitalism, so that's good.

inetknght 8y ago

> My line of thinking is what makes companies profitable. I don't disagree, however unfortunate that is. > You can moralize all you want, but the incentives align for a company to maximize on profitability, not on "hey my customers like me". Let's change that so that the incentives do work for being liked. > You can't pay for dinner with goodwill, but you can pay for dinner with money. Somewhere there's some middle ground which represents the failure of our government to incentivize; where companies may still be profitable (even obscenely so), and employees are able to pay for dinner, and customers are happy, and people aren't being manipulated. > If I'm being so disrespectful, why is my engagement high? Do people love to be disrespected? Love to be? No. Most have become desensitized to disrespect such that they expect to be abused by collusion between big corporations and big government. > You're talking about what ought to be, as if it were how it is. It's not that way. It's how I describe. Maybe it should be some other way, but it's not. I'm talking about what ought to be, indeed. I recognize it's not that way. Do you recognize that it doesn't have to be that way? Don't you agree that it should be some other way?

diminoten 8y ago
I don't agree with your yanking what I've written out of context... Respond in full please, not line by line.
- inetknght 8y ago
  I replied to every statement. I don't agree with having super large replies that people start looking for a tl;dr
  - diminoten 8y ago
    What you're doing is toxic. Learn to respond to the argument being made, not the literal words being used

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LaGrange 8y ago

> If I'm being so disrespectful, why is my engagement high? Do people love to be disrespected? There is a large difference between what people "want" (at a given moment) and "like." It's very much possible — and I'm pretty sure you're currently advocating it — to make people "want" things they don't actually like. Yeah, it's a weird glitch in our brains. Also, you are making a very good case for destroying capitalism, so that's good.