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from Chris Hughes’ massive break-up facebook/mea culpa, i think this aspect of running companies explains much of why they go from “don’t be evil” to dystopian monstrosity. it’s not just “greed”. nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opi… 1/ 
within the communities these companies come to define, tremendous, tangible human virtue comes from their financial success, and even more tangible human costs would follow from financial underperformance. people who begin as idealists don’t compromise (just) to some vampire- 2/
squid-like evil. they begin to trade off the abstract costs and benefits of their early idealism against the tangible costs and benefits to the real humans they work with, most of whom are good people and not ungodly rich. the interests of tangible humans (and not entirely 3/
coincidentally, the vampire squid) understandably win. in a very human way, this feels like virtue, not vice, like putting caring for your family before upholding some Kantianism you batted around during conversations in college. /fin
