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The purpose of a private corporation to make the share holders wealthy, even if you have to appease a foreign government.

Many companies cooperate with NSA, rouge governments all over the world. Everybody does that. It's not new.

At the end of the day, people have to be paid and investment needs to be multiplied.

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Just because something makes money for someone doesn't mean it magically becomes ethical. Neither does it become ethical if other people do it too.

Ethics does not exist in reality. At the end of the day, you try to live a better life.

Facebook sells ads and to live longer, it needs to sell more ad. Invention is a growing vertically, which is very difficult and if you stop, you die. Expansion is growing horizontally, which is easy. You live longer, if you spread quickly.

No, it's not just about whatever you happen to feel like doing to live a better life. There's also what society will collectively do to you if you violate its ethical standards - the consequences of which are very much real.

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