There is nothing sociopathic about rationally navigating the global environment. Further, placing bets with your time and money, based on your observations, is what an entrepreneur does.
> There is nothing sociopathic about rationally navigating the global environment.
There is something sociopathic about a definition of "rational" that only encompasses financial profit. Maybe you're a good person, maybe you're making products that make people's lives better, but none of that's apparent when you brush off a comment about genocide with "yeah, but there's lots of money to be made". If there's such a thing as "the American way" there's more to it than Gordon Gekko. Don't try to rationalize pure materialism as patriotism.
No, unfortunately, the products I’ve made have probably not made the world a much better place. For example, I made, about 1 million selfie-sticks, for the GoPro camera. Sold in Best Buy, Target, Walmart, and frys electronics. Anytime you see one of irritating sticks with a camera on it. You can think of me.
Now, it would be great, if I could help stop genocide. It would be great, if I could change China. But, that’s out of my span of control. And no matter how much you preach at me, it is also, outside your own span of control.
Both sides!
> That’s the American way.
That's the amoral way. The sociopath way. Nothing particularly American about it.