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We need to get to a point where tech companies are more honest about their missions. E.g. Google's mission is not really "Organize the world's information", but
by hliyan 3y ago
We need to get to a point where tech companies are more honest about their missions. E.g. Google's mission is not really "Organize the world's information", but rather, something like "Connect advertisers with the most relevant audiences through search".
- criley2 3y ago[flagged]
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- criley2 3y agoLiterally everything in your comment is false. Bravo! This kind of low-quality flamebait belongs on reddit.
- KingMob 3y agoBold of you to assume HN is smarter than Reddit on anything non-technical.
- ohgodplsno 3y agoI don't even assume HN is smarter than Reddit on average, including anything technical.
- rmilejczz 3y agoYeh lol such a good job! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides
- mikecoles 3y agoSo.... people stopped farming and moved to cities and you're excited they are not starving, even claiming they're not starving because they moved to city. Who's left doing the farming? Farming life is better than city life.
- filoleg 3y ago> Farming life is better than city life. Why would they stop farming and move then? Because they are looking for a worse life?
- 0ct4via 3y ago"Farming life is better than city life." - citation needed. Farming life is long, hard, and expensive. The difficulty in even running a small farm, never mind something larger - and that's ignoring being priced out by huge corporations buying out land and farms - is significant. That's not even touching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_suicides_in_the_Uni... which - if you knew anything about "farming life" - you'd know is a significant and long-standing issue in the farming community. Spend most of your days doing physically taxing labor (even with machines to help), and still be at the mercy of weather or pests (for crops), and markets / health scares (for animals), having little access to healthcare, mental health support or financial support, and then come tell me how much "better" it is. Farming life is more than just fresh air and being less densely-populated. Saying it's "better" when farmers have some of the highest suicide rates, issues with mental health, and levels of poverty and income disparity - never mind the significantly higher risk of death or serious injury from machinery or livestock - is totally inaccurate and incredibly disingenuous.
- hliyan 3y agoThis is incorrect and in bad faith. Apple's mission of "to create technology that empowers people and enriches their lives" is actually closer to what they do. A less embellished version would be: "sell consumer devices with integrated software, with a focus on ease of use for non-technical users, and superior build quality"
- sudosysgen 3y agoIf your goal was to empower people you'd want to lower prices until margins are reasonable in order empower more people, especially given the fact Apple has more money than it knows how to spend. Apple sells tablets that fold in two and glue slab computers. That's only superior quality for a meaning of quality that aligns suspiciously with profit maximization :)
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- thunky 3y ago"Organize the world's information" is also what Google does. The point of the exercise is to point out why they do it (their true mission).
- mensetmanusman 3y agoIt’s not empowering when I accidentally tap an address while driving and my iPhone sends me to the App Store to download Maps instead of recognizing that Maps has failed me too many times and I want to use google maps which is already open…
- dann0 3y agoBoring and inaccurate.