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People comparing Apple and Google on everything forget that both companies are very different in their missions. It's not about right and wrong, it's just different.



Making money is agenda number one for both companies regardless of what their respective PR departments say.


Google's founders hold enough of the voting shares to make Google's agenda whatever they feel like making it that day.


If you must make money to pay for your living and take care of your spouse and kids so that they may have a better future than the life you have lived, is your agenda number one to make money regardless of what you tell your friends you are working for?


No it's not. You can support your family without enabling an evil corporation in sneaking billions in tax evasion schemes. Greed destroys. Capitalism destroys. No paint job fixes that.


> Capitalism destroys.

All systems destroy. Destruction is a natural phenomenon. The difference is that capitalism creates more than it destroys, and (empirically) creates more than any other economic system.

> Greed destroys.

On greed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWsx1X8PV_A


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> You really don't get out much, do you?

No personal attacks on Hacker News, please.


Nice metaphor.




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