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What is your best idea for the future? Do you think I or anyone else would find it palatable? Here's the thing: the profit motive is the impulse of corporatio

by l33tbro 13y ago

What is your best idea for the future? Do you think I or anyone else would find it palatable? Here's the thing: the profit motive is the impulse of corporations, not the sum total of all behavior. There are great people in corporations that do amazing shit within corporate structures. Coca-Cola have done incredible social art installations recently - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts_4vOUDImE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts_4vOUDImE Google is a huge corporation based on the profit principle, but making coin has been the means for Page to fulfil his dreams of being remembered as our modern Tesla.

hrktb 13y ago
About Coca Cola, there is this very good talk by Melinda Gates about what they do in the developping world: http://www.ted.com/talks/melinda_french_gates_what_nonprofits_can_learn_from_coca_cola http://www.ted.com/talks/melinda_french_gates_what_nonprofit... I think enabling enterprising people to do business may be the most positive thing Coca Cola does to the world. For Google, it seems making money is not the end game. What they do have many positive fallouts, but I'm not sure they move the 'real' world forward as much as Microsoft (while openly evil, they brought a unified computing environment to the world) or Apple or even Amazon.
- hitchhiker999 13y ago
  With all due respect, and thank you for the reply - I feel compelled to say this: I used to think like that, however after many years of observing the complicit abuse corporations like these preside over - I can no longer hold that opinion.
  - hrktb 12y ago
    If it is about Coca Cola, I have an idea of what kind of abuse or corporate behavior it has, and I don't think 'sugared water' is much needed in our world (I don't deny the value, I just think it's not a need). But even for such a company, there are some positive fallouts. In the ranking of evil companies, I'm not sure they even come close to the French water groups or big medical corporations, but I might just lack information. Edit: for Amazon and Microsoft, of course I get how bad they can behave. Amazon more so when it comes to distribution level workers and general social behavior. Microsoft I don't kniw if there are people ignorant of what they did the last decades.
hitchhiker999 13y ago
My best idea for the future? First one that comes to mind: Decentralisation of key services. Perhaps you don't find that palatable - others may. While I truly like 'Page', he seems like an interesting chap; It's a stretch to portray him as today's 'Tesla'.

by l33tbro 13y ago

hrktb 13y ago

About Coca Cola, there is this very good talk by Melinda Gates about what they do in the developping world: http://www.ted.com/talks/melinda_french_gates_what_nonprofits_can_learn_from_coca_cola http://www.ted.com/talks/melinda_french_gates_what_nonprofit... I think enabling enterprising people to do business may be the most positive thing Coca Cola does to the world. For Google, it seems making money is not the end game. What they do have many positive fallouts, but I'm not sure they move the 'real' world forward as much as Microsoft (while openly evil, they brought a unified computing environment to the world) or Apple or even Amazon.

hitchhiker999 13y ago
With all due respect, and thank you for the reply - I feel compelled to say this: I used to think like that, however after many years of observing the complicit abuse corporations like these preside over - I can no longer hold that opinion.
- hrktb 12y ago
  If it is about Coca Cola, I have an idea of what kind of abuse or corporate behavior it has, and I don't think 'sugared water' is much needed in our world (I don't deny the value, I just think it's not a need). But even for such a company, there are some positive fallouts. In the ranking of evil companies, I'm not sure they even come close to the French water groups or big medical corporations, but I might just lack information. Edit: for Amazon and Microsoft, of course I get how bad they can behave. Amazon more so when it comes to distribution level workers and general social behavior. Microsoft I don't kniw if there are people ignorant of what they did the last decades.

hitchhiker999 13y ago

My best idea for the future? First one that comes to mind: Decentralisation of key services. Perhaps you don't find that palatable - others may. While I truly like 'Page', he seems like an interesting chap; It's a stretch to portray him as today's 'Tesla'.