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>decision Right. I get that. I think it’s a misguided decision. But I get it. Because I understand that profit is their only driving motivation (no pun inten

>decision Right. I get that. I think it’s a misguided decision. But I get it. Because I understand that profit is their only driving motivation (no pun intended). What I don’t grok is how many replies there are here quite literally picking on those people who demonstrate legitimate life safety uses for the AM band, Some of those by the State providing a service. Yes, do not buy this if you decide you need AM as a backup. I get that. Heck, I already won’t buy cars that can be disabled remotely. “Old man yells at cloud” memes aside.

xwdv 4y ago
Just because a company’s motivations don’t match what a niche customer wants, doesn’t mean their only motivation is profit. They certainly have other motivations beyond profit, just none that you may care about. Consider the Ford Bronco, where one of the motivations was to beat the Wrangler. Given their engineering decisions, profit was certainly not the only motivation.
- flandish 4y ago
  > only motivation You fail to understand what “companies” are under capitalism - they exist for profit, only. > beat the wrangler For .. fun? That’s not gonna make shareholders happy. They did it for profit. engineering decisions in corporations are driven by profit. Not to be pedantic. But, in my opinion, it’s important to *not humanize corporations* because they are not humans.
  - xwdv 4y ago
    On the contrary, corporations are nothing but humans. Thousands of humans working together to achieve human goals. And if what humans mostly want is profit, then corporations will want profit, but occasionally they want other things too. Power, revenge, prestige.
    - flandish 4y ago
      You’re applying human emotion to the actions of humans within a corporation and sure, that tracks. From a purely mathematical shareholder ROI standpoint, a “continuous expansion” facet of capitalism, and the purchase of labor from humans who do not themselves own or control the corporate decisions - there is only ever ROI that is considered.

xwdv 4y ago

Just because a company’s motivations don’t match what a niche customer wants, doesn’t mean their only motivation is profit. They certainly have other motivations beyond profit, just none that you may care about. Consider the Ford Bronco, where one of the motivations was to beat the Wrangler. Given their engineering decisions, profit was certainly not the only motivation.

flandish 4y ago
> only motivation You fail to understand what “companies” are under capitalism - they exist for profit, only. > beat the wrangler For .. fun? That’s not gonna make shareholders happy. They did it for profit. engineering decisions in corporations are driven by profit. Not to be pedantic. But, in my opinion, it’s important to *not humanize corporations* because they are not humans.
- xwdv 4y ago
  On the contrary, corporations are nothing but humans. Thousands of humans working together to achieve human goals. And if what humans mostly want is profit, then corporations will want profit, but occasionally they want other things too. Power, revenge, prestige.
  - flandish 4y ago
    You’re applying human emotion to the actions of humans within a corporation and sure, that tracks. From a purely mathematical shareholder ROI standpoint, a “continuous expansion” facet of capitalism, and the purchase of labor from humans who do not themselves own or control the corporate decisions - there is only ever ROI that is considered.