"Honest and true" IFF your sole interest is your monetary/political gain without regard to ethics or fairness — IOW, you are an abuser/exploiter of the system and of people.
It is the same kind of "truth" as "Might Makes Right" and "He who has the gold makes the rules". While these phrases accurately describe the matter in some situations, they do not create a society that is sustainable, desirable, or any value of ethical (even for the abuser/autocrat, who must always watch their back).
So, yes, to the extent that it is an open admission of being an abusive exploiter of the system and people, it is not hypocritical.
But if that same person makes any statement or pretense that they are an ethical or good person, it is hypocritical in the extreme.
If companies own it up, sure. But Meta pretends to want "honest" competition, it's just that somehow any competitors who do exactly what Meta is doing are "cheating".
scotty79|3 years ago
toss1|3 years ago
It is the same kind of "truth" as "Might Makes Right" and "He who has the gold makes the rules". While these phrases accurately describe the matter in some situations, they do not create a society that is sustainable, desirable, or any value of ethical (even for the abuser/autocrat, who must always watch their back).
So, yes, to the extent that it is an open admission of being an abusive exploiter of the system and people, it is not hypocritical.
But if that same person makes any statement or pretense that they are an ethical or good person, it is hypocritical in the extreme.
rdedev|3 years ago
creshal|3 years ago
dgb23|3 years ago
JohnFen|3 years ago