• hperrin@lemmy.ca
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    23 hours ago

    I don’t know how all these tech companies keep making obviously stupid and immoral decisions like this.

    “We need someone to process our emails.”

    “Oh well we have two options. This one costs a hundredth of a cent less per email, but they also run their machines on the blood of children and they ritualistically sacrifice minorities as part of their business model.”

    “You said a hundredth of a cent? Perfect!”

    • Unusable 3151 ⁂@lemmy.ml
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      I think you answered your own question. To expect them to do anything other than what will increase their wealth is naïve. Anything that seemed like a “moral” thing that they did in the past simply happened to be more convenient.

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        22 hours ago

        Yeah, I suppose so. It just sucks that it seems like every single company is run by a monster.

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          Because companies have a legal responsibility to increase value to shareholders; morals don’t enter into it.

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    1 day ago

    tl;dr “Discord told Kotaku its work with Persona was part of a “limited test” which has since been concluded.”

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        16 hours ago

        The cost benefit ratio of straight up lying in PR statements and privacy policies has become such that they’re less than worthless to readers

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          Yup, but not worthless to their lawyers, so they’re full of weasel words and yet still bind the consumer to horrible conditions. Yay, late stage capitalism.

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    23 hours ago

    Still worth migrating away since they’ve gone public a bunch of villains sit on the board who’ll look to profit off your data.