VC by default are founder friendly in my experience.

If you find a greedy VC then most likely they are real VC and often gets attracted when your business is not doing great.

Reputation travels in this industry therefore people care.

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DrScientist 4 hours ago | parent [-]

> VC by default are founder friendly in my experience.

Founders are only one stakeholder. There are employees ( I think they fall into that category ), customers, suppliers, and the wider society.

It all comes back to why does the company exist - and for which stakeholders. I think that's the point the original author is making.

I don't buy the argument that making money in the end is a perfect surrogate for overall good - it's not - it's an imperfect surrogate - and to pretend it is a perfect surrogate is just an excuse to behave like an arsehole.

To make that concrete, let's say you are a chemical company making paints - really important job, paints are needed the cheaper you can make them, the more people can have them etc, but if you knowingly pollute a local river just because you can get away with it and increase your profits - saying that increased profits justifies polluting the river based on the assumption that river pollution is correctly priced ( free ) is an obvious convenient excuse to be a selfish arsehole.

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conartist6 2 hours ago | parent [-]

LLMs are major generators of pollution: digital pollution.

I wish the companies understood the tremendous cost to society of polluting our well of knowledge.

But no, as your mention it is free for them to pollute, so they do liberally

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DrScientist an hour ago | parent [-]

Clearly LLMs are tools which can be used for good or ill. The supplier of raw chemicals to the paint factory isn't really responsible for the river pollution.

However you are right to point out there is a problem. Typically societies ( via governments ) try and fix by appropriately pricing the behaviours via regulation/laws ( fines or prison for the people doing it ).

However making regulation/laws is hard. What's your proposal to fix the problem you've identified?

	▲	conartist6 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Oh it'll fix itself. Nature is like that. You might hit a moment where a lot of people whose only purpose in life is using Claude Code, um, well, starve. But yeah, nature is metal like that.