Two of Silicon Valley’s famous venture capitalists make the case for backing Trump: that their ability to make money is the only value that matters.

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    4 months ago

    believes in free enterprise

    Like religion, that’s a concept the powerful made up to control the market.

    Truly “free” enterprise, IE unburdened by regulations, inevitably ends up with the powerful dominating the powerless.

    As I’m sure you’d agree, being dominated by someone who’s more powerful than you is nobody’s idea of free. In fact, even if you’re into it, it tends to be rather expensive.

    Building good product and services is a way to maximize profits. It really isn’t an either/or situation

    That used to be the case, sure, but nowadays there’s all sorts of ways to tweak profits that necessitates compromising on either quality (including treatment of workers) or profits.

    So if you want to maximize (achieve the maximum of) profits, you literally have to compromise the quality, how you treat your workers, or both. Almost all companies do both.

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      4 months ago

      I’ve only seen such opinions from Iron curtain countries that strive to get enough toilet. paper. Good luck with that, btw.

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        I’ve only seen such opinions from Iron curtain countries that strive to get enough toilet. paper

        It’s not my fault you live in a bubble of people with no class consciousness or solidarity with the exploited majority.

        Good luck with that. And congratulations on always having enough toilet, paper.