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Nope, they scrapped that years ago. And I really, really want to know exactly what happened at that meeting. Did someone sit there and say something like 'Look
by rvense 5y ago
Nope, they scrapped that years ago.
And I really, really want to know exactly what happened at that meeting. Did someone sit there and say something like 'Look, I'm not saying we should "be evil"...'? How does that conversation start?
- amelius 5y agoWould you bring your kids to Disney World if its motto was "we won't kill your children"?
- d0gsg0w00f 5y agoYes
- ranguna 5y agoNot sure about that, but I'd definitely take then there if other amusement parks killed children. Better yet, I'd take them there if their motto was "don't be evil". Google's old motto wasn't "we don't kill our users", so I don't really see what you're getting at here...
- amelius 5y ago> Not sure about that, but I'd definitely take then there if other amusement parks killed children. I bet most people would just find other forms of entertainment for their children. > Google's old motto wasn't "we don't kill our users", so I don't really see what you're getting at here... My point is that corporate evil is a concept that is too abstract for most people to understand, therefore I made it more concrete, at the same time showing how nonsensical the motto really is.
- d0gsg0w00f 5y agoI always wondered this too. Would love to have been a fly on the wall in the "let's drop the 'don't be evil' motto" meeting. Maybe at the time it seemed intuitive, not representative of the _positive_ goals of the company, and just something people could point at whenever there was a minor disagreement. In hindsight they may have been able to avoid the dumpster fire that they're in now if they had kept it.