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1. Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Jan-2019 11:31:30 CET Aral Balkan

   Capitalism:

   1. Fund entities whose sole purpose is profit
   2. ???
   3. Achieve social good

   • gid (gid@cybre.space)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Jan-2019 11:33:44 CET gid

     in reply to

     @aral is step 2 "Assume good intentions, despite all previous evidence to the contrary"?

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   • deshipu@mastodon.technology's status on Wednesday, 02-Jan-2019 12:10:42 CET deshipu

     in reply to

     • gid

     @gid @aral obviously step 2 is "free market".

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   • Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅ (bob@soc.freedombone.net)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Jan-2019 12:31:58 CET Bob Mottram ? ☕ ✅

     in reply to
     @aral
     
     1. Fund entities whose sole purpose is profit
     2. Claim you're doing "Tech for Good"
     3. Implement dark patterns
     4. Insert ads and trackers
     5. "Innovate" the algorithmic timeline
     6. Make public statements about privacy, then implement detailed telemetry system because you need to know all about user behavior
     7. Set headquarters to be a shell company in a tax haven
     8. Claim that diversity is important, but only recruit men with CS degrees from ivy league universities
     9. Burn out of VC cash
     10. Issue ICO
     11. Be bought by Google or Facebook
     12. Retire to a gated community
     Aral Balkan repeated this.