This comment is in terrible taste but it isn't wrong. We can't just shove our hands in the sand and say it isn't fair so it isn't true.
are you referring to "might is right"? what makes you say that?
A pop culture reference I like to make is the protagonist in Wolf of Wall Street who defrauded many innocent and vulnerable people, is seen as a hero.
Relating back to OP and his American comment, we can reopen Guantanamo Bay for the purpose of torture yet every time our president sets foot in a foreign country he receives a celebration: partly due to the might of the American military and economy.
Relating back to tech and software in general: How do we feel about Microsoft, Bill Gates, after what they did in the 90s? How do we feel about the way Steve Jobs treated his employees and bought his higher placement on the organ transplant list?
"Might makes culturally acceptable" it seems.
He definitely isn't. Neither is Gordon Gecko except by those people who fail to understand the slightly deeper meaning of the telling of those stories.
> How do we feel about the way Steve Jobs treated his employees and bought his higher placement on the organ transplant list?
Or his partner for that matter. But that wasn't the subject, even so plenty of people detest Jobs for or even all of the above.