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Re:Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend by aaroninsf on Friday October 13, 2017 @02:01PM (#15467908)
The generalized case is both obviously the case, and not an examined axiom in contemporary politics: corporations operating without a value function that incorporates the public good and the commons, are not your friend.

Well, unless 'you' are one of the very few (statistically speaking) benefiting.

It's neither impossible nor unreasonable to constrain organizational behavior to incorporate collective goals.

It's just politically toxic in an America where self interest has been cultivated to be the ultimate moral litmus test.

That economic theories predicated on the aggregated consequence of self interest providing for collective benefit have been utterly disproven has not affected the received ideology.

Who would want to question the belief that acting in their own benefit is not morally unimpeachable?

QED the lionized cowboy culture at Über, to name an egregious example among a bottomless pool of them.

Re:Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend by WalterBright on Friday October 13, 2017 @07:00PM (#15469761)
> a value function that incorporates the public good and the commons

That would be providing a product that people are freely willing to pay for.

Re:Silicon Valley Is Not Your Friend by dredmorbius on Monday October 16, 2017 @05:55AM (#15482038)
Heroin?