Better funding for documentation

Posted Nov 17, 2024 16:44 UTC (Sun) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
In reply to: Better funding for documentation by milesrout
Parent article: Funding restored for man-page maintenance

> This is a bit silly. The duties of directors to their shareholders have never been to maximize profit by "screwing" people or "profit above all else". This idea has been repeated a lot online in the last few years but is quite untrue. In practice, directors are given a lot of leeway to argue that their actions are beneficial to the company

> I take particular issue with your "very explicitly not what is morally correct". Nowhere in law does it require directors to disregard moral principles

This is a bit of a tangent, but while this may be true in some literal technical sense it presumes that the people running a company, the managers, executives and board of directors are logical beings trying to make a financial profit, in fact companies are run by people who are primarily emotional beings and a vast number of companies are run to satisfy some emotional needs of the managers, executives and board of directors, so profit will be left behind to pursue goals of "screwing" people (customers, employees, competitors) more often than you'd think if you believed companies were motivated by some rational profit-seeking impulse.

If profit-seeking was the main impulse, companies would be run a lot more competently more often, is what I'm saying.