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> at least their Not-CEO hasn't told advertisers to go fuck themselves Since when we think of advertisers as a force for good? I always thought of them as the
by throw310822 3y ago
> at least their Not-CEO hasn't told advertisers to go fuck themselves
Since when we think of advertisers as a force for good? I always thought of them as the ones for whom the platforms are secretly working, while pretending they care for their users.
I've been thinking about it in the last few days. Wasn't the idea that capitalists seek profit, and people and government care about the ethics and the politics and the law? Feels strange to be rooting for corporations to set the political standards for the public.
- zzzeek 3y agoSir, this is a Hacker News
- cedilla 3y agoI think the discussion around Elon Musk and his outburst is a little bit more nuanced than choosing which side is the "force for good".
- addicted 3y agoNo, that’s not the idea of capitalism. Sure that’s what you’ve been sold by bad actors, but that’s definitely not how capitalists have been defined for most of history until very recently by some bad actors. At a bare minimum, capitalism requires capitalists to be ethical because if they’re not their customers will rebel. But comments like yours which explicitly try and excuse bad behavior because we should expect bad behavior tries to undermine the most basic capitalist tool to eliminate bad behavior. Heck, even Elon Musk’s entire original justification for buying Twitter was explicitly supposed to not be about profit.