Corporations act on the behalf of shareholders. They might employ people to do so, and those people in some sense might “make up” the corporation, but it is lit

Corporations act on the behalf of shareholders. They might employ people to do so, and those people in some sense might “make up” the corporation, but it is literally their job to pursue the interests of whomever owns stake in the corporation. I glossed over a lot of steps in my hacker news comment about a specific context. The context is some people trying to get github to take a stance, an opinion, about a department of the us government. It’s hard to be creative enough to imagine a more partisan or divisive topic, where moral consensus is effectively impossible. Within this context is is absolutely safe to describe the role of the for profit (public in this case) corporation - as opposed branches of the government, or non profit organizations, or unions, or groundswell movements or any of the various emergent structures you might want to throw in here - as seeking profit.