Yes, Milton Friedman, 1970, New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/1970/09/13/archives/a-friedman-doctr...
Wikipedia has a summary on the idea behind the essay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine
Wikipedia has a summary on the idea behind the essay https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedman_doctrine
The businessmen believe that they are defending free enterprise when they declaim that business is not concerned “merely” with profit but also with promoting desirable “social” ends; that business has a “social conscience” and takes seriously its responsibilities for providing employment, eliminating discrimination, avoiding pollution and whatever else may be the catchwords of the contemporary crop of reformers.
San Francisco based Unity is on the vanguard of the new socially aware Corp.
It is just a few easy examples. I've used Unity for a decade, visited the offices, worked with ex-Unity employees. They aren't maximizing shareholder value, they are very bloated, and they are trying to survive and avoid bankruptcy.
at the expense of the public.
What does that even mean? There is no expense to the public. They give their product to 90% of developers for free. Unity used to charge every seat.