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To quote the user wbl: Aside from the transistor, negative feedback, Unix, troff, radio astronomy, the charge coupled device, cryptography, information theory, what did Bell Labs ever do for us? [1] By the standard you set forward, we would have shut down Bell Labs BECAUSE it started to create these unquantifiably valuable inventions. Google makes absurd amounts of money by search. Is it unethical to create an amazing search engine? Would it be better if Google said: "We aren't going to put money into moonshots, cancer research, laying fiber in Kansas, internet broadcasting balloons, AI research etc. We are going to take all of the money and pay it back to shareholders."? I believe that your proposal, if put into practice, would amount to "we should destroy products that are successful". What am I missing? [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20512519 |