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I don’t think the parent was saying that everyone’s intentions were pure until recently, but rather that naked greed wasn’t cool before, but now it is. The Int
by dgreensp 1y ago
I don’t think the parent was saying that everyone’s intentions were pure until recently, but rather that naked greed wasn’t cool before, but now it is.
The Internet has changed a lot over the decades, and it did used to be different, with the differences depending on how many years you go back.
- jon_richards 1y agoAs recently as the Silicon Valley tv show, the joke was that every startup pitch claimed they were “making the world a better place”.
- vrosas 1y ago"I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than we do." -Gavin Belson
- drewbeck 1y agoGavin is a perfect example of this, tho fictional. "Doing good" was a route to personal success and domination; Gavin under a Trump admin would have dropped the act, just as others have done.