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> Spotify had opened a representative office in Moscow. [...] Why? Seemingly just to get a bit closer to the treasuries of the region’s greatest kleptocrats. o
by jazzyjackson 5y ago
> Spotify had opened a representative office in Moscow. [...] Why? Seemingly just to get a bit closer to the treasuries of the region’s greatest kleptocrats.
or maybe it's easier to hire talent in Moscow (a metropolis of 17M) than Kyiv (3M), sheesh
- tgv 5y agoWhy write such a dismissive comment when that’s not the point at all?
- jazzyjackson 5y agoIt captured the tone of the article to me, reading in too deep to motivations of a publically traded company where there might be easily explained, boring, financial incentives. Don't know why anyone expects a corporation to take the moral high ground.
- atoav 5y ago> Don't know why anyone expects a corporation to take the moral high ground. Because corporations belong to the biggest and most powerful entities on the planet and not holding them to high moral standards seems to many of us like a sure way into a dystopian future. If a corporation is viewed as some sort of mega-organism that lives long, evolves, changes it's environment, etc. who else then humans shall try to keep these from turning the world into a bad place? Even staunch believers into the invisible hand of the market think that it is individuals who will guide the corporations into behaving in such ways that they benefit all of us.
- tgv 5y agoViewing a company as only having purely financial interests is very limited, IMO. Hey, let's sell hypermodern weaponry to the Russians and the Chinese. It'll make us a quick buck! But you may well be right that that's all Spotify has, given their predatory business model. What's wrong pointing that out? Why would you even criticize that, given that it's that site's financial incentive?
- ciupicri 5y agoIt's a business, not a charity.
- dehrmann 5y agoIt's common to open local offices for ad sales.