Cool, thats not what I said. Building software that people will buy gives you creative freedom.

The problem isn't making money, it's making money without regard to how your activity impacts other.

Yes… and upon reading the post, I think that’s a very unfair characterization of the author’s app. This is a highly targeted niche convenience app. The activity is controversial, so is skill-based matchmaking in multiplayer games or CG in anime. That doesn’t mean the author is some heartless knob out to destroy society one watch app at a time!

Calling it "controversial" is a way of whitewashing that it would get you kicked out of any poker game I have ever attended.

Possibly you could get away with it at a shady home game where the other players know it is a sign you are a massive fish and will still lose money.

It is a variation of the Nuremberg defense

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders

We pretend to be rational and as soon as livelihood is affected logic goes out of the window.

(not talking about the specific person, just about the logical argument)

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted.

You’re making a very interesting point about capitalism and democracy that people should keep in mind.

But…

1) I disagree that logic is the thing that goes out of the window, instead it’s “morality.” We sacrifice our sense of acting in the greater good and instead optimize for ourselves

2) There have been too many events in business and democratic history for me to believe that this disposal of our morality though repugnant is not just a human trait developed via evolution for some sort of greater purpose that benefits our species in a larger way than all of the disasters its caused (ie. Great Recession, Opiod Epidemic, Nazi Germany, Challenger Disaster, etc)