That's a fairly common meme and a complete misunderstanding of the motives of corporations. Companies do lots of things that don't immediately look like profit

That's a fairly common meme and a complete misunderstanding of the motives of corporations. Companies do lots of things that don't immediately look like profit-gaining moves to investors. Actually, put another way, do you think that Google is not a corporation, and instead a basket of goodwill, since they market things as 'open'?