[dgreensp]

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]

As recently as the Silicon Valley tv show, the joke was that every startup pitch claimed they were “making the world a better place”.

[vrosas]

"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]

Gavin 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.