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Translated: Hey Joel, I'll always suspect your motives regardless of what you do even if it's a binary choice so you can't win. What does whether or not Joel is doing this for the money have anything to do with whether or not StackOverflow Careers is a good or bad thing?

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The problem sane people have, is that the profit motive is backwards.

The stated purpose is to help geeks get jobs. However, SOC makes more money from geeks not finding jobs.

How else can one respond to that than with doubt? Are we supposed to take their word for it, that they're going to do the best they possibly can in building and operating this service, so that they can make less money?

Exactly, some nice false dichotomies going on here. Also: what's the sin in making money while also helping programmers get better jobs, regardless of whether or not that money is the primary goal or a side effect?

There's nothing wrong with making money in that case, just avoid these kinds of statements:

> earning money was never the point of charging job seekers

Have you read the article describing the problems implicit in SO careers? Also, look at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=997068 the high post on this thread.

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