• SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I have never in my life heard of a CEO in this heap that actually cared about being a good person (or even just not a terrible person) over making money

    If you presented them the option to press one button and kill an unknown number of people they had never met for 10 million dollars, or to press another button to prevent an equal number of people from dying of preventable causes, the lacquer on the ‘give 10 mill’ button would be worn off before the other button saw a single press.

    • miz [any, any]@hexbear.net
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      they would film a video deceptively edited to show them pressing the save people button, release that, and then spend the rest of the day hammering the money one