Is there any “good companies”? I’m fairly sure they all become paperclip optimizers after a certain size and any seemingly good behavior is simply the better op

Is there any “good companies”? I’m fairly sure they all become paperclip optimizers after a certain size and any seemingly good behavior is simply the better option from a profit-maximizing point of view. Do you honestly think that all those libraries care about Pride or Black Lives Matters? Nope, they just had some calculations and as user-facing companies, marketing has a huge role on their profits. A logistic company won’t have done any such thing as they are likely not even known by the general public. Oracle is not really an end-user facing company like Facebook or Google is, so they simply don’t care all that much about that (hence the lawnmower analogy). But.. that’s a good thing as well — you can use the lawnmower for its job, you’ll never be surprised. Graal and OpenJDK and other tech at the bottom of the tech stack are long term investments. Looking at the linux kernel, it is not developed primarily by some hacker in a basement, but by employees paid by Intel, Red Hat, Google, pretty much everyone.