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Ask HN: Any companies that are objectively trying to make the world better?
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Re: Ask HN: Any companies that are objectively trying to make the world better?
#22no, that's not the role of companies. companies just exist to make profits, if they make something useful along the way, it's incidental.
That’s not true for all types of companies.
Re: Ask HN: Any companies that are objectively trying to make the world better?
#23> Ask HN: Any companies that are objectively trying to make the world better?
No.
Re: Ask HN: Any companies that are objectively trying to make the world better?
#24Yes: https://puri.sm/why-purism . Sent from my Purism Librem 5 (GNU/Linux phone).
Unless you need a refund. Then you'll be waiting for literal years!
Re: Ask HN: Any companies that are objectively trying to make the world better?
#25Companies that make chocolate
Chocolate contains significant quantities of heavy metals so they’re making the world better but also making it worse.
(Just proving the point that in almost every case there’s a judgement call to be made about how net good something is)
Re: Ask HN: Any companies that are objectively trying to make the world better?
#26Of course. If there weren’t, companies like Facebook wouldn’t be able to get away with saying that THEY are making the world a better place.
If there was no truth to the story, there couldn’t be half-truths because no one would have any intuitive or reasonable basis to believe them.
Re: Ask HN: Any companies that are objectively trying to make the world better?
#27Free trade benefits both parties by definition - otherwise the 2 parties would say "Salud" and part ways.
"The world" is usually defined so as to include those 2 parties, whoever they are. So I'd say all companies are at least trying to do this.
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#28Re: Ask HN: Any companies that are objectively trying to make the world better?
#29By 'objectively' do you mean something like:
"A subjective but widely/generally agreed Average Utilitarianism with high distribution of utility (e.g. low Gini Coefficient)"?
Water Aid immediately springs to my mind, but it is no longer recommended by GiveWell. https://www.givewell.org/international/health/water. Which highlights some of the problems with this objectivity and effort.
Perhaps malaria charities are the current 'best bang for buck' / best targeting 'a better world' with the fewest competing interests.
Re: Ask HN: Any companies that are objectively trying to make the world better?
#30Free trade benefits both parties by definition - otherwise the 2 parties would say "Salud" and part ways. "The world" is usually defined so as to include those 2 parties, whoever they are. So I'd say all companies are at least trying to do this.
*in a perfect world with no monopolies, no information asymmetry and probably a dozen other caveats.