Delivering toothpaste and batteries is just a means to an end. Businesses will go to any length to make money. “Community”? Does that make money? If not, don’t

Delivering toothpaste and batteries is just a means to an end. Businesses will go to any length to make money. “Community”? Does that make money? If not, don’t care. Bulldoze a nursery with the babies still inside? They’ll do it if it makes $1 more than the alternative. AI safety people talk about a hypothetical “paperclip maximizer”: a powerful AI programmed to make as many paperclips as possible. Left unchecked, it converts the universe into paperclips. But we already have them! They’re just called giant corporations, and instead of maximizing paperclips, they maximize money.