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   Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 02:52:11 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

   • Rob Haines

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   | companies that cannot be trusted

   I believe you meant to write "companies."

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     Rob Haines (rob_haines@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 03:26:03 JST Rob Haines

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     @aaribaud Respectfully, I disagree with this. I think it's more nuanced than that.

     Capitalism incentivises perpetual growth, but I don't agree with the idea that companies inherently *cannot* be ethical.

     My point is that there's a paradox here: these technologies are enabled by that excessive growth, but to grow to such monolithic extent as Amazon and Google and Microsoft requires unethical behaviour.

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     Albert ARIBAUD ✎ (aaribaud@mastodon.art)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 03:49:22 JST Albert ARIBAUD ✎

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     • Rob Haines

     @rob_haines

     You're welcome to disagree! I should have made it clearer that I was being (more) cynical (than my usual self).

     [Were I to make a more serious point, I would have probably pointed out that the position of executive in a company (or any position of power really) tends to end up occupied by unethical people.]