All of this stuff is related - from open source - stoic, to google - do no evil to Apple - we won't compromise privacy even for murderers because hey rights. I

All of this stuff is related - from open source - stoic, to google - do no evil to Apple - we won't compromise privacy even for murderers because hey rights. I do feel like the walls are starting to fall. The friendly attitude is dropping and we're starting to see through the fake promises and platitudes. We have startups that claim they are housing the poor or cleaning drinking water for people in Africa, and time and again someone investigates the truth and things fall apart. In the end we find out those were all sales tactics. Maybe even believed by the people selling them, but in the end it HAS to somewhat fit into some exact money making puzzle. It doesn't matter if the REST of the corporation they are building is robotizing jobs and getting rid of employees (hey they are freeing the burdens of people - who cares if they can't afford the house anymore). Then comes in Basic Income. And there is no effort from Google or Facebook to foot the bill either - they're merely doing the cheap thing - lobbying - to have our taxes pay for it. These are all showmanship efforts to justify the rest. What is worse is that each of these companies is like a magnet with Good [ --- ] Bad poles. ALL of the Bad on the right is justified by some platitude connected to the Good. The goal is to simply hide the bad. So if stoicism is part of all of it, I think that's just another self-lie. I do think that people are good, in general, but in modern society we have made justification part of the mental process. The first step in creating your company is to convince yourself that you're doing good. Then you can turn on the steam roller. I guess see also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19492813 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19492813