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I don't get any odd vibe like that from this article. They are pretty upfront about the business motivations in this post:

> with the launch of our Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform Google Compute Engine, we noticed an interesting problem: customers were paying for a lot of CPUs, but their utilization rates were extremely low because they were running VMs. We knew we had an internal solution for this.

Later,

> most importantly, we were able to work with lots of great engineers, many of whom really understood the needs of businesses who would benefit from deploying containers

That does not read like a decision to pursue this for the betterment of the world. It sounds like a decision to pursue this for the betterment of their customers. That's capitalism, not benevolence, and they're pretty transparent about it.