Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase
by centimeter on Thursday May 07, 2020 @10:31AM
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I think you have a rose-tinted view of what old-timey businesses looked like. We moved past mom-and-pop subsistence industry like 400 years ago. No one ever said “I’m going to create a sheet metal production company for the common good.”
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> No one ever said “I’m going to create a sheet metal production company for the common good.”
Look up Joseph Rowntree[0]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Rowntree_(philanthropis...
Could you point to examples that support the existence of this alternate history of which I've never heard of?
Re:Zoom Acquires Keybase
by centimeter on Thursday May 07, 2020 @12:47PM
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To be clear, you are asking for examples of historical companies that were profit motivated?
No you’re confused. He’s asking for a history in which there is no company motivated by anything other than profit. Since there exist many companies motivated by things other than profit, no such history can be provided. Hence the GP is wrong. Hence the irrelevance of downvotes on this cunty website