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The concept is more foreign than you ever expected.

Here is a person criticizing 37Signal who wants to optimize for profit.

The tweet was just last week ... in the current economic climate.

https://twitter.com/moritzplassnig/status/167278031492050124...




And that link is also inaccessible, underscoring some point...

Plan A: continue as now, make a little money and everyone eats, or

Plan B: pretend to your investors you will be super duper profitable, wreck the internet, and then go out of business with your golden parachute.


It is the Elon's rate limit...


There is a big difference between making a profit and optimizing for profit.

Plenty of businesses make a profit - even a healthy profit - while respecting their employees and contributing to their community. Ones which optimize for profit inevitably become evil.


The context is 37Signal has moved from cloud to their owned servers.

You can decide whether that is an evil move.




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