What amazes me is not the fact that the allure of billions of dollars could cause a person to make some morally hazardous shortcuts, but that it tempts those who *already have billions of dollars!!!* How much more money do these people need? Isn't the goodwill that comes from wearing the White Hat worth something that their amoral counterparts don't have? While I am amazed, I am not surprised.
The point of business is to grow it, not to say "this is good enough" and just stop. If any of the leaders of the past had said that, we'd still be walking through poop-filled fields, laboring for our lord who lives in his castle.
I don't believed that I adopted an anti-business stance- I just happen to have a philosophical issue with the sheer amount of greed among people who already have everything. I understand that the counterpoint to that issue is "how do you think they got that way in the first place", but they just don't need to sell us out to grow their business. They don't have to. They just want to. While I'm not going to do anything hasty like switch to Bing, I will remain open to other options and remind myself that I'm not necessarily a human to them as I am a dollar sign.
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What amazes me is not the fact that the allure of billions of dollars could cause a person to make some morally hazardous shortcuts, but that it tempts those who *already have billions of dollars!!!* How much more money do these people need? Isn't the goodwill that comes from wearing the White Hat worth something that their amoral counterparts don't have? While I am amazed, I am not surprised.
@RyanLN
The point of business is to grow it, not to say "this is good enough" and just stop. If any of the leaders of the past had said that, we'd still be walking through poop-filled fields, laboring for our lord who lives in his castle.
@paul34
Yeah, but at least our poop filled fields wouldn't be tracking our poop filled interests.
@maxxorz
An another note, did you know that the word "ambition" used to carry a negative connotation.
@paul34
I don't believed that I adopted an anti-business stance- I just happen to have a philosophical issue with the sheer amount of greed among people who already have everything. I understand that the counterpoint to that issue is "how do you think they got that way in the first place", but they just don't need to sell us out to grow their business. They don't have to. They just want to. While I'm not going to do anything hasty like switch to Bing, I will remain open to other options and remind myself that I'm not necessarily a human to them as I am a dollar sign.