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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?
#2no, that's not the role of companies. companies just exist to make profits, if they make something useful along the way, it's incidental.
Re: Ask HN: Any companies that are objectively trying to make the world better?
#3The emergence of Companies in society wasn't to make the world better but to conduct business more efficiently. Sometimes there is alignment between those 2 things. Sometimes there is not. Since they aren't designed for it, don't look to them to solve social problems.
Making your neighborhood better is much less complex than making the world better. So look in your own neighborhood for groups, cooperatives, associations, societies that are working on specific issues. They might not capture as much Attention as large companies, but that's where you will see cool stuff happening.
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#4I think we need to understand the term 'world better' from different perspectives. In my opinion, enabling an ordinary person to have a job and earn a salary, to support themselves and their family, and to have the material conditions to pursue their interests and hobbies, also makes the world better to some extent.
Re: Ask HN: Any companies that are objectively trying to make the world better?
#5Yes: https://puri.sm/why-purism.
Sent from my Purism Librem 5 (GNU/Linux phone).
Re: Ask HN: Any companies that are objectively trying to make the world better?
#6Every real and legally existing company makes the world better than without it.
Even if only by providing income for employees and paying taxes.
But most companies also take part in producing or redistributing something valuable.
And yes, to make an omelet you need to break some eggs.
Show me a living person (let alone a company) who doesn't produce any waste and who never does any evil - and yet here we are, still evolving, still growing economy, still improving the quality of life all over the world.
Despite all the problems, crisises, setbacks etc.
That is as objective as you can possibly get in such a generic discussion.
What’s the point of the question?
Re: Ask HN: Any companies that are objectively trying to make the world better?
#7Every real and legally existing company makes the world better than without it. Even if only by providing income for employees and paying taxes. But most companies also take part in producing or redistributing something valuable. And yes, to make an omelet you need to break some eggs. Show me a living person (let alone a company) who doesn't produce any waste and who never does any evil - and yet here we are, still e…
A wild and mostly poor take. I understand the guidelines requiring more substantive posts, but I believe the overwhelming examples of detrimental companies are self evident.
Re: Ask HN: Any companies that are objectively trying to make the world better?
#8They can’t even fix their hiring process so never mind about fixing the world.
Re: Ask HN: Any companies that are objectively trying to make the world better?
#9Don’t know if this fits your criteria but the Carter Center is working to eradicate Guinea Worm.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02306-8
Re: Ask HN: Any companies that are objectively trying to make the world better?
#10Every real and legally existing company makes the world better than without it. Even if only by providing income for employees and paying taxes. But most companies also take part in producing or redistributing something valuable. And yes, to make an omelet you need to break some eggs. Show me a living person (let alone a company) who doesn't produce any waste and who never does any evil - and yet here we are, still e…
A wild and mostly poor take. I understand the guidelines requiring more substantive posts, but I believe the overwhelming examples of detrimental companies are self evident.
Sorry, nope.
Something so vague as “making world better/worse” can be “self evident“ only for ignorant and arrogant, or brainwashed people.
Anyway, give us please couple examples of detremential companies and also a source of authority to judge “objectively”, to have a meaningful debate.