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Y-Combinator exists to make Paul Graham and it's investors money. Morality is not money. Y-Combinator doesn't exist to make morality for its investors.
by formerkrogemp 4y ago
Y-Combinator exists to make Paul Graham and it's investors money. Morality is not money. Y-Combinator doesn't exist to make morality for its investors.
- etrautmann 4y agoThis is not a good argument. Of course companies can optimize for multiple objectives and to pretend that any company doesn’t is willfully blinding oneself to reality.
- UncleMeat 4y agoMaybe it'd be better if our society reprioritized so "these organizations are all amoral actors who exist for no other purpose except to fatten the wallets of their owners" isn't the assumed norm.
- chitowneats 4y agoYes, of course. They should exist for the purpose of advancing things that u/UncleMeat finds important instead. \s
- UncleMeat 4y agoClearly I shouldn't be the arbiter of world priorities, but I think there is something horribly fatalistic about people defending corporations as amoral entities as some sort of immutable property of the universe.
- nebulous_two 4y agoWhy is it only when things go bad that people realize that human priorities are not the same as company priorities?
- formerkrogemp 4y agoPerhaps the sarcasm here was not understood? Corporations should exist to serve people, broadly. Not the other way around. People over profit. We should all strive to be kinder as well where possible.
- pmyteh 4y agoPoe's Law, sadly. I've seen people sincerely argue exactly that case :-/