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>It is the job of a business to make money, the most money possible, at all costs. That is its single purpose existing.

I don't think that's the single purpose of a business existing. I hear this all the time and I'm not sure where it comes from. Lots of businesses exist to change things or provide ways to solve problems with money being the means to allow them to do this.

It's why you can have businesses that take long bets on better tech (Tesla, Space X) or work to fix large broken systems that are hard to enter (Palantir). Google also started with similar goals.



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