The problem is that most people don’t trust them to actually inform goverments with their well-informed opinion but with their interests in mind. And if that is a reasonable point of view, then whether or not they have a well-informed opinion becomes irrelevant.
the common denominator is money
So we should also trust health insurance companies’ CEOs’ ideas about how health care should be structured? If they are likely to put their company’s interest above anything else, then this is a very valid question. And big corporations are notorious for doing exactly this.
I mean it is not unimaginable that someone with low moral standards may be exaggerating the risks involved to fear monger governments etc to work with them. It is a general distrust of big corporations that make people here skeptical. If companies like meta, google, tesla etc have no reservations about doing extremely shitty and dodgy things and also able to come out of those with net positive effects, why wouldn’t this guy? When someone says “corporations should not set defense policy”, they don’t actually mean setting it on a governmental level. What they mean is that they should not even be able to inform policies because they are likely putting their interest above other ethical considerations.
What is to be expected when the current trend among CEOs is to get the same stuff done with less employees and same salaries hence resulting in either you getting fired, resigning or doing x2 the amount of work with no real life improvements. Who would have the willingness to continue their side hobbies/project like contributions to open source when your main life is in shambles.
feel free to block me instead, I post images every now and then
How so? Seeing this news made me wonder who organized this flight which reminded of this story where someone also saves people from an oppressive regime by organizing a flight out of it.
who?
June Osborn
why?
to rescue them
where?
In the novel/series handmaid’s tale
the scene where she rescues kids by putting them on an airplane
The question is more the following: can we trust them to use the information available to them honestly or are they more likely to distort or hide facts if it aligns more with their interests. If the latter is a common situation, then that is not an insane take.