@jalefkowit @fraying It's not like the software industry had ever been a bastion of ethics, but it didn't used to be all pump-and-dump all the time.
> it didn't used to be all pump-and-dump all the time
I think it's an effect of how companies behave vs how people behave.
People have ethics, while companies do not. A company is not a real person but instead a "legal person" that can do things without ethics getting in the way.
For a new, small company there is a chance that the ethics of people working there can shine through and have an effect. For larger companies, as time goes on, no such chance. No ethics.
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@jwz @eliasr @jalefkowit someday we will invent a social media system that doesn’t cause people to explain things to strangers that they already know, but that day is not today.
@eliasr @jalefkowit @fraying "Companies", notably, being a thing that was invented after the 1990s.