> all their decisions are based on sales
replyThat’s the edgy cynical thing, and too reductive to be meaningful. For one thing, it assumes perfect knowledge of how a decision will impact sales, which I assure you is not remotely the case.
Agreed on incentives, but it’s not binary. I’ve been involved in plenty of decisions in multiple Fortune 500’s where the deciding factors were taste, wanting or not wanting to work with a particular partner, etc.
I guess I’m saying that seeing corporate behavior as perfectly informed, single-goal-optimized, and deterministic is way oversimplifying. Often, not always.
It's an optimal first order approximation.
replyAnything anyone with a capital-C in their job title says in public should be assumed to be marketing material.
worked at fortune 500 companies and biggest cyber vendors too. Notnin sales or c/d level ofcourse.(engineer)
I am a cynic yes but have also seen that its largely true in many cases where you'd hope ethics would win the argument (and does not).
replystill, you are right its cynical, the world is not black and white afterall :)