• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you think profit is the only reason people set out to run companies, then you’re the one who is delusional.

    If you take VC money, you play by their rules. Its not nihilistic to be realistic about the context of things.

    And I appreciate your optimism, even if I consider it to be delusional. But to me that kind of ‘inactive hope’ is equivalent to what you accused me of doing (‘curl up and die’).

    Proceeding through this world on hopes and prayers that a system set up to do anything but exploit and destroy will do anything but that is deeply problematic and contributes significantly to the issues. Its a kind of toxic positivity that gives people the illusion that they are doing something when they aren’t. I don’t have time for that.