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Talents leave AI companies: "They are putting profits over sanity and safety"
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this post was submitted on 19 Feb 2026
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All businesses are. That's what a business is. A legal entity that seeks to extract as much wealth from people as possible. They put profits before people as a matter of policy.
Limited liability corporations should be outlawed.
That's not what business is inherently; that's what capitalism is.
It's not even strictly what capitalism is about. It's some stupid bullshit interpretation that came out of the University of Chicago economics department.
Seriously, go look at Adam Smiths wealth of nations. The only mention of the "invisible hand" is so different from what is taught in economics now
It's not that we need no regulation. It's just trying to say that if we set things up correctly, we don't need to worry about people pursuing SOLELY their own personal gain. Because the market seeks out the "greatest value", which is not just about money. It's also the value to society as a whole.
Instead, we got the fucking bullshit from Chicago saying that the only / best way of measuring value is by profit.
Spot on. I wrote an essay on this exact topic
It's kind of funny how Adam Smith saw the need for moral philosophy to constrain greed in the economics of capitalism yet for most modern capitalists, capitalism is their moral philosophy 🤣
As a legal requirement.
Interestingly its not.
I believe that's only if you're publicly traded.
Even then the legal requirement is about working in the companies interest, not strictly get more profit. It's become shorthand to just say profit, because it's a simple thing to point at.
Yeah, but it might depend on the company bylaws even if its privately owned.