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by Spivak 3350 days ago
Are we really at the point where people are being called naive for trusting a company to act ethically? It's no wonder people outside of tech hate us.
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As a general rule, if you give an organization any kind of advantage over you, sooner or later someone in that organization will abuse it.

The saying "power corrupts" is more correctly expressed as "power attracts the corruptible".