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You got downvotes, I hope because your tone isn't super productive, not because HN doesn't like the realist viewpoint you're taking.
by brunoTbear 7y ago
You got downvotes, I hope because your tone isn't super productive, not because HN doesn't like the realist viewpoint you're taking.
- alkibiades 7y agoi think it’s the second. IMO if the people who run the company want to donate to charity, they can use their own money.
- mikeg8 7y agoWell as they own they company, it technically is their money. I think the bigger point you're missing is how our society's corporate leadership needs to shift their mentality and follow along with Stripe. Solving this problem isn't the sole responsibility of philanthropic individuals.
- superflit 7y agoYou are right. Any investor should be aware that it may lose or gain wealth from this actions. As customer I will take a lower fee instead of that and then I will choose whatever I will do with a lower fee.
- ian0 7y agoThats the opposite of realist. A realist would observe that the stripe founders own and manage stripe, that their investors probably do share the same ideals as them, that HR is challenging and this obviously wins favor, that people involved understand the global optimum (not damaging the planet) can be greater than the local optimum (maintaining low expenses for stripe) and on and on. The comment was idealist, not realist.