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"making good money" is the goal of a company.

• echelon 6y ago
  Humans locally minimize entropy, sometimes in exchange for fulfilling an objective function or following some optimization gradient (profit). It's nice when it works out and we leave things behind in better conditions than we found them, but that's not what the universe is playing at. Nor is it necessarily a/the goal. It's weird how this all works, and how short a time we have to affect it. It would be nice if everything we made was good and worthwhile, but it's hard to know where things are even going to wind up, and if our investments in making certain things better will pay off. You have to consider opportunity cost when making improvements. (This pandemic is really screwing up my sleep schedule.)
• Tade0 6y ago
  Of course it is, but you can go about this the smart way or the less smart one. I for one voted with my feet, because I judged this particular approach to be shortsighted.
• ashtonkem 6y ago
  At the top level, yes. The incentives at various points in the organization are significantly more complicated though. The relationship between what engineers want and making money is less strong than most would care to admit, for example.