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Re:The Perils of Private Provision of Public Goods by smallgovt on Saturday March 07, 2020 @04:25PM (#22514207)
> even though it's probably PR-driven, if we're being honest

Thank you for judging people/organizations based on their actions and not their intentions. Intentions are complex and hard to accurately determine.

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Re:The Perils of Private Provision of Public Goods by MiscIdeaMaker99 on Saturday March 07, 2020 @05:22PM (#22514628)
Intentions are not motivations. They may have great intentions, but Starbucks is absolutely acting in their own self-interest when they decided to come out with this policy. It has everything to do with changing the narrative following the incident in Philadelphia, referenced in the article.
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Re:The Perils of Private Provision of Public Goods by _bxg1 on Saturday March 07, 2020 @04:36PM (#22514291)
Not for a publicly-held, international corporation. I'm sure the baristas' enactment of the policy is genuine, but public corporations do not have "intentions" other than to make money.
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Re:The Perils of Private Provision of Public Goods by avip on Saturday March 07, 2020 @04:39PM (#22514306)
Public corporations are made of people, and people have (complex, and often contradictory) intentions.
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Re:The Perils of Private Provision of Public Goods by TeMPOraL on Sunday March 08, 2020 @07:21AM (#22517501)
Intentions other than making fast buck cheap tend to quickly cancel out on the market.
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