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No for-profit company is your friend. Only as long as they can extract value. Not a cynical view. There is plenty of evidence.
by searchableguy 6y ago
No for-profit company is your friend. Only as long as they can extract value. Not a cynical view. There is plenty of evidence.
- robbrown451 6y agoWell, it can be a cynical view and a correct view at the same time. I do question the black and whiteness of the comment. Also, what do you mean by "friend"? An (also cynical) argument could be made that even your actual friends are out to advance their own interests first, and are using you to those ends. A more realistic and useful statement might be that for-profit companies lie on a spectrum -- none are purely "good" and none are purely "evil." I imagine that you can probably substitute "for-profit companies" with "humans and human run organizations" and it would still be true.
- idclip 6y agoThats why i celebrate the move on that spectrum with care :D ... i remember the 2000s. I just hope the trend continues and gives us more
- PopeDotNinja 6y agoOr... It's easy to altruistic when shareholders are happy with stock performance. When the stock be a tankin', altruism gets a spankin' (best rhyme I could come up with).
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