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Entrepreneurs take advantage of business opportunities. And it IS a business opportunity. Fact is people pay for those domains. Let the down-votes commence.
by RollAHardSix 15y ago
Entrepreneurs take advantage of business opportunities. And it IS a business opportunity. Fact is people pay for those domains.
Let the down-votes commence.
- heretohelp 15y ago>Let the down-votes commence. In future, omit these kinds of statements. They're pointless and inflammatory and are unwelcome because of that.
- wpietri 15y agoThe people who inflated the mortgage-backed securities bubble also "took advantage of business opportunities". That doesn't, in my view, make them entrepreneurs; it makes them antisocial assholes. Of course, it's no surprise that the domain squatting business is populated by similar arrogant jerks. It's not like this idea didn't occur to a lot of other people; the just recognized it as society-negative BS and went and did something useful.
- laughinghan 15y agoA business opportunity being legal and profitable does not make it ethical. My understanding is, the intention behind society's laws and social norms is for all legal and profitable businesses to serve the common good in some small way. What good do squatters do the world, in any way, shape, or form, whatsoever? The effect they have on the world is for good projects to be harder for people to use, by taking up all the good domains. That makes this a bug in our society, that I, at least, would appreciate being addressed.
- EvilTerran 15y ago"Let the down-votes commence." Quoth the guidelines: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you.