YC China and Qi Lu

Re:YC China and Qi Lu by DanielGee on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @08:45AM (#17765577)

Companies exist to make money. I think the tech community's biggest mistake was assuming that tech companies are moral agents. Of course tech companies ( "do no evil" ) had a hand in misleading us. But tech companies are no different than oil companies, pharma companies or movie studios. They want market share and money.

Maybe we should stop putting tech companies and tech leaders on a pedestal.

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Re:YC China and Qi Lu by carapace on Wednesday August 15, 2018 @02:09PM (#17768315)

Or we should accept that there's no magic get-out-of-moral-obligations card issued to them when they become agents of a business?

There's this weird rationalization that somehow a person becomes immune to moral considerations when they accept a job as a corporate executive.

I don't that's true. And I don't think most businessmen think that's true either. I'm pretty sure Warren Buffet doesn't think that's true.

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