HACKER Q&A
📣 yqtjnvou

Do you feel like whatever makes money is detrimental to everything?


It wasn't the case many years ago, but now it seems that you have to willing destroy something in order for a business to succeed. I don't know how to explain better but just that whatever does more damage to people is that which gets monetized. You almost never see good products receive the same success as bad or detrimental ones. I feel like anything that is noble, or of noble origin today is left to die by itself whether it is a person, a company, a community.. anything that has morals is being killed, one way or another. Have you guys noticed this?

  👤 JohnFen Accepted Answer ✓
No, I don't feel that way at all. Greed certainly kills everything that cozies up to it, but people and companies can and do succeed without doing that.
👤 brodouevencode
No.

This is a fairly nihilist take. There are plenty of markets where you can deliver goods and services that aren't detrimental to anyone.

👤 jqpabc123
More generally, sustained existence is detrimental to everything. In physics, this is called entropy.

This applies to products, companies and yes, even to people.

In order for you to exist, something has to die or be degraded/deteriorated in some way. The only question is the magnitude of the impact.