Re:Facebook chooses profits over people
by ajuc on Friday October 22, 2021 @08:50AM
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> The problem isn’t Facebook, a private company, seeking profits.
Very often in modern world this is exactly the problem. Stuff you'd be ostracized for if you did it as individual is perfectly natural for a company and in fact expected. It was designed this way, too - the limited liability is there for a reason.
So no wonder the entities that let you get away with almost anything are ruled by psychopaths. Firing one guy won't change it. The system must be changed.
You can hire an honest person that balances morality, law and profits.
Or you can hire a person that optimizes profits over anything else, and if (s)he gets caught - you just hire someone else.
It's a no-brainer, really.
It was a mistake to let people legally limit responsibility for their behavior in this way. And if companies are legal entities they should go to prison or be executed when they fuck up.
Very often in modern world this is exactly the problem. Stuff you'd be ostracized for if you did it as individual is perfectly natural for a company and in fact expected. It was designed this way, too - the limited liability is there for a reason.
So no wonder the entities that let you get away with almost anything are ruled by psychopaths. Firing one guy won't change it. The system must be changed.
You can hire an honest person that balances morality, law and profits.
Or you can hire a person that optimizes profits over anything else, and if (s)he gets caught - you just hire someone else.
It's a no-brainer, really.
It was a mistake to let people legally limit responsibility for their behavior in this way. And if companies are legal entities they should go to prison or be executed when they fuck up.