alt Hacker Newsall their decisions are based on sales. like other corporations especially those going for IPO. thats absolutely true. Any messaging outbound will be for that purpose mostly from a business perspective, regardless of what opinions or ideals the involved persons hold personally. Its good to keep that in mind indeed when looking at these things. People arent evil, but business incentives can definitely paint such a picture or otherwise work out suboptimally in the eyes of outsiders not privy to internal business reasoning.
> all their decisions are based on sales
That’s the edgy cynical thing, and too reductive to be meaningful. For one thing, it assumes perfect knowledge of how a decision will impact sales, which I assure you is not remotely the case.
Agreed on incentives, but it’s not binary. I’ve been involved in plenty of decisions in multiple Fortune 500’s where the deciding factors were taste, wanting or not wanting to work with a particular partner, etc.
I guess I’m saying that seeing corporate behavior as perfectly informed, single-goal-optimized, and deterministic is way oversimplifying. Often, not always.