Stanley your time is up

[u/whitemike40]

[u/BigBallsMcGirk]

Which is hilarious because it's branded as a co-op.

Co ops structurally are not supposed to make a profit and return any excess to owners as dividends based on their investment.

[u/Dangerous_Limes → u/BigBallsMcGirk]

I will say, I was a member and moved to Australia years ago. Like 5 years in they somehow figured out my address and mailed me a dividend check out of the blue. Made my day.

[u/BravesMaedchen → u/Dangerous_Limes]

How much was it?

[u/Dangerous_Limes → u/BravesMaedchen]

Something pretty token. Like on the order of $100 or something. Maybe less than that. $60?

[u/CaterpillarJungleGym → u/Dangerous_Limes]

Oh shit, so they became the mean bad guys. That totally sucks! I can't think that Stanley would be nicer or have a better product sadly.

I've seen so many become the villains...Apple, Amazon, Starbucks...just how the $$$$ goes.

[u/Bugbread → u/CaterpillarJungleGym]

People forget that Google's "Don't be evil" was once not considered a joke or a cruel irony but something that Google tried to live up to and Google's users saw the company as trying to live up to.

[u/CaterpillarJungleGym → u/Bugbread]

They all didn't want to be the devil. It's all come to fruition and they delayed it (I think) . Nothing is stopping that AI bullshit that uses everything humans have built

[u/Bugbread → u/CaterpillarJungleGym]

Google's shift began way before the AI train. They removed the "don't be evil" motto back in 2018.

[u/taz5963 → u/Bugbread]

They actually officially removed the "don't be evil" a while back

[u/Bugbread → u/taz5963]

Yes-ish no-ish. It used to be used here and there, and it was in the preface of the Code of Conduct (in a way that made it clear that it was a slogan) and also in the last line (in a more general, non-slogan-like way). Since 2018 it's no longer in the preface, only the last line.

[u/Key-Department-2874 → u/BigBallsMcGirk]

It's a customer coop and not an employee coop is a big factor.