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LOL! Does anyone think CEO's of major corporations are trying to improve the world? Honestly that's funny. Sorry if you really are this earnest. I wish you the

• keeda 9mo ago
  Eh, I did say he's not necessarily better than the rest of them, just more aligned with the rest of us, likely because he's more forward-looking than the others. He's seeing the backlash against AI, the pushback against data centers, and the social turmoil on the horizon, and he's saying, "Maybe we should not piss all the people off." Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46729271 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46729271
• techblueberry 9mo ago
  “LOL! Does anyone think CEO's of major corporations are trying to improve the world?” I think that there are some leaders who think about building a business in terms of providing value or an exchange of goods. I think there’s a fundamental difference to society between a ceo that abstracts their role as building a product people value, and one that sees their role as hacking the stock price. The first still may do terrible things, but I think a lot of modern problems in society stem from the fact that deregulation changed the incentives from (1) to (2), but I’m pro any conversation that tries to move us back towards 1