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Just remember: If companies could reasonably expect to get away with it, they'd offer murder-for-hire as-a-service so long as it was profitable, and if they di
by lenerdenator 2y ago
Just remember:
If companies could reasonably expect to get away with it, they'd offer murder-for-hire as-a-service so long as it was profitable, and if they didn't, there'd probably be at least one activist shareholder who would push for it.
- callalex 2y agoIsn’t that what Blackwater is?
- arghwhat 2y agoCompanies do, just not the ones we read about on Hacker News.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2y agoTrue Also companies are made of people. There is no magic threshold of size at which bad stuff seeps in
- brigadier132 2y agoThis is statement is so ridiculous. It's like saying "Just remember: some humans are murderers"
- aidenn0 2y agoCorporations in the US are structured in a way that many will act with ethics much lower than the median ethics of the employees.
- idle_zealot 2y agoThe point isn't just that it would happen, it's that it would be rewarded and encouraged, and ethics preventing the most profitable action (murder) would lead to being outcompeted by an organization with a structure that allows its members to coordinate and profit from murder without their ethics preventing such action. i.e. the market will ruthlessly optimize ethics out of decision-making.