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It's a for-profit corporation, I'm not sure shame is useful concept when reasoning about its behavior. It also reminds me of the fable about the frog and the s
by CoastalCoder 2y ago
It's a for-profit corporation, I'm not sure shame is useful concept when reasoning about its behavior.
It also reminds me of the fable about the frog and the scorpion.
- philipov 2y agoI wasn't familiar with the fable so I looked it up. It seems entirely appropriate that it emerged in Russia in the early 20th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
- rchaud 2y agoIn that case, maybe we need a new word to describe businesses that are entirely VC-subsidized , then IPO with their books deep in the red and then start enacting anti-consumer policies because they're "for-profit".