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Spivak on April 23, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Uber CEO Plays with Fire

Are we really at the point where people are being called naive for trusting a company to act ethically? It's no wonder people outside of tech hate us.

mdpopescu on April 24, 2017 [–]

As a general rule, if you give an organization any kind of advantage over you, sooner or later someone in that organization will abuse it.

The saying "power corrupts" is more correctly expressed as "power attracts the corruptible".

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