If people are too "nice," we can totally go back to a hunter-gatherer way of life instead of keeping modern institutions alive. I imagine billions would die to get there from here. But, at least we would no longer need to make hard decisions like which poor sucker to fire.
This is a question that can be answered without even agreeing with me a bit.
If I believe that one can only make millions with fking people over then of course I think pg having millions already and making millions with YC means that he has been and still is fking people over.
Btw, have you considered that some people may think and evaluate without moral<->immoral evaluations?
“Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil.” - Alexander Solzhenitzen
And as far as I know you can't overwrite violence with togetherness, but the other way around is easy.
The truth is that you not just need to be cunning, you need to be routine at it, so you can act nice while doing selfish things like removing founders without paying them out, putting competitors out of business, and telling guys who just spent the first three years of their child in your office instead of with their families that they need to clean out their desks. Without that ability what you can do is to sizzle nicely while being turned around in the pan.