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Money can be used to better realize your principles. It's sort of like the trolley problem. What if you were being offered so much money that you felt you could
by shawnz 5y ago
Money can be used to better realize your principles. It's sort of like the trolley problem. What if you were being offered so much money that you felt you could achieve a greater net good with it than without?
- chmod775 5y ago> What if you were being offered so much money that you felt you could achieve a greater net good with it than without? "The ends don't justify the means" is also a principle. And it's a good one. 'Many a great evil has been done in the name of good' etc. If someone won't kill their grandma for one billion dollars, they probably won't do it for 10 billion either.
- mbesto 5y agoI think you're arguing something entirely differently. > And it's a good one. You're acting as if myself or the parent comment think everyone in business is evil. AFAIK you have no intimate knowledge about the founders and their motivations or what they believe to be "good", seemingly that they have some benevolent worldy principled intentions. At no point am I arguing that people don't have principles, just that those principles may manifest themselves in different ways (as the parent pointed out, the owners might sell and start a non profit privacy based solution, just like, ya know, Brian Acton did)
- chmod775 5y agoI was responding to what I quoted in my initial comment. And I meant what I said, nothing more, nothing less. Please don't ascribe things to me that I did not say. Thanks a bunch. We're here to evaluate whether the statement "Everyone has a price." (emphasis yours) is true or not and I have no interest in anything beyond that. After all that's the part of your post I quoted.