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Google ad on a magazine from 1999 (i.redd.it)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/22055566

Google ad on a magazine from 1999

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Ahh yes the "Do no evil" era.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Notice that era was before they went public. Then it predictably became the "how do we make a profit this quarter?" era.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

That's not a Google issue. That's literally each and every public traded corporation. They need to maximize shareholders profits by definition.

Could we stop stock markets and that? I'd love it.

I don't believe anyone decided to step in deeper shit one step at a time, they listed, and from there onwards it's the only possible path. Death by a thousand greedy strokes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

It's a Google issue because the executives... specifically chose to chase higher profits on the stock exchange. There's plenty of private companies that make money, yet retain their soul and aren't at the quarterly whim of outside investors...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I would like to have been a fly on the wall at the meeting when they decided "OK now we're evil, right?"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

are we the baddies?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

How the mighty have fallen

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

yea, its funny to see xkcd.com/792 from 2010, back when google wasn't evil

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

As it turns out, making boatloads of money despite already doing that was the plan.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

As someone said, the goal of capitalism isn't to have a lot of money, it is to have all of the money.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You.....a mind traveler.

Me......in search of my own mind.

This plays out one of two ways. Either an adult swim animated show where your whole body is just my brain, and I stuff you back in my head through my ear.

The show revolves around you, trying to escape from inside my head. And me, trying to find you, and stuff you back inside.

ORRRRRRRRR

It's one of those lifetime romance movies. I'm Andre the Giant, and you're Bobby the Brain Heenan. They're lovers who have hit a rough patch, and the only way their marrage can survive the 1980s, is to take the WWF championship off of Hulk Hogan at Wrestlemania 3. They laugh, they live, they love, and then they cry when Hogan slams Andre.

..................what am I even doing with my life???