• @jballs
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      411 month ago

      Notice that era was before they went public. Then it predictably became the “how do we make a profit this quarter?” era.

      • redfellow
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        1 month ago

        That’s not a Google issue. That’s literally each and every public traded corporation. They need to maximize shareholders profits by definition.

        Could we stop stock markets and that? I’d love it.

        I don’t believe anyone decided to step in deeper shit one step at a time, they listed, and from there onwards it’s the only possible path. Death by a thousand greedy strokes.

        • @[email protected]
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          01 month ago

          It’s a Google issue because the executives… specifically chose to chase higher profits on the stock exchange. There’s plenty of private companies that make money, yet retain their soul and aren’t at the quarterly whim of outside investors…

    • @[email protected]
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      161 month ago

      I would like to have been a fly on the wall at the meeting when they decided “OK now we’re evil, right?”

        • @fsxylo
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          131 month ago

          As it turns out, making boatloads of money despite already doing that was the plan.

          • Zekas
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            41 month ago

            As someone said, the goal of capitalism isn’t to have a lot of money, it is to have all of the money.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 month ago

          You…a mind traveler.

          Me…in search of my own mind.

          This plays out one of two ways. Either an adult swim animated show where your whole body is just my brain, and I stuff you back in my head through my ear.

          The show revolves around you, trying to escape from inside my head. And me, trying to find you, and stuff you back inside.

          ORRRRRRRRR

          It’s one of those lifetime romance movies. I’m Andre the Giant, and you’re Bobby the Brain Heenan. They’re lovers who have hit a rough patch, and the only way their marrage can survive the 1980s, is to take the WWF championship off of Hulk Hogan at Wrestlemania 3. They laugh, they live, they love, and then they cry when Hogan slams Andre.

          …what am I even doing with my life???