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you sincerely want to change the world and make it a better place,... You shouldn't believe that crap. That is simply keyword optimization to attract VCs who "
by phantom_oracle 13y ago
you sincerely want to change the world and make it a better place,...
You shouldn't believe that crap. That is simply keyword optimization to attract VCs who "believe in people, not the company".
If you want to make the world a better place, you don't need to profit off of it at the same time.
A rational human being is driven to maximizing his own utility. While he may want to fund a tech school in Ghana when he becomes a millionaire, he will want to do it after he has made 10x the amount he gives away and many will do it openly, because fame is as desired as money (if not more).
- wellboy 13y agoWell, if you want to improve the lifes of millions of people, your company has to make significants profits and grow strongly. The thing that most people don't understand is that if a company isn't profitable, its products will never reach these people. That's just reality, if you can't pay your employees, they will work for somebody else and all your idealism doesn't help there.
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- phantom_oracle 13y ago"Well, if you want to improve the lifes of millions of people, your company has to make significants profits and grow strongly." Wikipedia? Mozilla? Ushahidi? "That's just reality, if you can't pay your employees, they will work for somebody else and all your idealism doesn't help there." If you can pay them enough to satisfy their utility and basic needs/wants, people will work for you. Again, see the examples above. You should try contributing open source software to non-profits. Maybe you will see things in a different light and while a cat-photo sharing app worth $50 million may not reach people in Mogadishu (who really don't give a shit about an "angry" cat), your health/water-finder/medicine app will reach the NPO workers who indirectly assist millions.