Comment on Judge Rules Apple Senior Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral
dustyData@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoValues mean nothing, principles are rational ideals, values are aspirational. They aren’t “straying from their core values”. This is who they have always been. Everything else was public relations. When faced with moral decisions, they will lie for money. Period.
DancingBear@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
It’s literally not possible for a billionaire to have any “core values”. It’s an oxymoron.
entwine413@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I mean, bill Gates has done a ton of really good things with his wealth.
BrightCandle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
After he acquired it all and spent decades doing illegal stuff for which Microsoft received extensive anti trust fines. Lets not kid ourselves here is trying to redeem himself for his prior billionaire behaviour and it often comes off more as “greenwashing” than actually helping people.
entwine413@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Right, fuck people for trying to do good if they’ve ever done bad things in their past.
DancingBear@midwest.social 4 weeks ago
Nah man, that wealth is stolen from tax payers.
I hear you, and I do like that billionaires like bill gates and buffet have pledged to donate or what not…
But my point still stands… they had no core values when they accumulated the wealth. Now gates is retired and bored and controls more wealth than a small country.
grue@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
And customers, and (probably most of all) employees.
noxypaws@pawb.social 4 weeks ago
Bill Gates deserves the guillotine exactly as much as the rest of them.
kingofras@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Oh come on. He said he barely remembered who Epstein was!
demonsword@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
entwine413@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Right, supposedly good things like making all research they perform freely available, providing billions in grants for healthcare and agricultural development, providing billions in funding to organizations like the WHO, etc.
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
That’s not true at all. Notch valued having a candy wall, and he made good on it.