• Brainsploosh@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Baselessly ascribing malicious intent is moreso a way to sow distrust and kill off discussion.

    And besides, unless local regulations expressly forbid it, the income statements of those companies are after any fines and after any profit reducing measures (e.g. Amazon famously use investment schemes to reduce taxation), they do make the money to cover them in the shorter interval, or even shorter.

    • Gamoc@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      It is astonishing to me that, in explaining why “baselessly ascribing malicious intent” is bad you have, in fact, baselessly ascribed the malicious intent of sowing distrust and killing of discussion to the person you are responding to. Incredibly quick hypocrisy turn around there.

      Arguably it doesn’t matter if its maliciousness or incompetence, the result is the same.