I get what you’re saying and agree to an extent, but I think being overly cynical negatively affects selection pressure for who pursues an entrepreneurial path.

I get what you’re saying and agree to an extent, but I think being overly cynical negatively affects selection pressure for who pursues an entrepreneurial path. There are people who would be perfectly happy to leave money on the table in order to increase the wide scale adoption of principles they believe to be important for society, such as privacy, eco friendliness, education, etc. If the expectation is that the business and product development world is solely about money and that principles do not have value in and of themselves, people who value principles over extracting every possible cent are more likely to avoid that world, which solidifies that image, which further reduces principled engagement, etc.