My favorite comment on the article is “The problem with capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money."

  • StarDreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 hours ago

    Our minds like to process entities/companies like Google as human beings, which allows us to assign emotions to these things. But the truth is, they are nothing but a glorified Chinese room experiment.

    People made the largest browser engine and operating system, not Google. Without people, the company is nothing. A company like Google is nothing but a set of self operating rules.

    I love/loathe Google just as much as I love/loathe my weekly /tmp cleaning cron job. Even if it accidentally nukes my files, it’s just doing as it’s designed to do.

    You design a system to maximize shareholder value, it will do exactly that without caring a single thing about human ethics.