Comment by deyiao
2 days ago
But the fact that they were donating huge sums every year even when they were still unknown really says something. If they were purely profit-driven, there’s no way the shareholders would have allowed that.
2 days ago
But the fact that they were donating huge sums every year even when they were still unknown really says something. If they were purely profit-driven, there’s no way the shareholders would have allowed that.
> the fact that they were donating huge sums every year even when they were still unknown really says something
You don't need to be known by the general public to take advantage of tax schemes involving "donating" money
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I have a more practical view: there's nothing wrong in making profit, the important thing is that they are also doing some good.
> As though you rendered the proletarians a service in first sucking out their very life-blood and then practicing your self-complacent, Pharisaic philanthropy upon them, placing yourselves before the world as mighty benefactors of humanity when you give back to the plundered victims the hundredth part of what belongs to them!
Friedrich Engels: The Condition of the Working-class in England
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It’s an interesting reformulation of Catholic “original sin”.
still way better than ClosedAI
I will call it as it is from now on as well
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