On: Amazon investors nuke ethics overhaul and say yes ...

[csallen]

1. If the regulators can behave so unscrupulously, making Jeff Bezos poorer won't solve that problem.

2. Wealth and influence are always used for personal gain. That's kind of the point, no? People are incentivized to work and earn money exactly so they can use it to make their lives better.

[tetris11 → csallen]

1. They could be more easily bribed by his competitors, or even by the government to do their jobs. It's less power to him.

2. If your goal in life is to maximize your own self interest without regards to how it impacts the society as a whole, then yes I agree.