Money can be used to better realize your principles. It's sort of like the trolley problem. What if you were being offered so much money that you felt you could achieve a greater net good with it than without?

> What if you were being offered so much money that you felt you could achieve a greater net good with it than without?

"The ends don't justify the means" is also a principle. And it's a good one. 'Many a great evil has been done in the name of good' etc.

If someone won't kill their grandma for one billion dollars, they probably won't do it for 10 billion either.

I think you're arguing something entirely differently.

> And it's a good one.

You're acting as if myself or the parent comment think everyone in business is evil. AFAIK you have no intimate knowledge about the founders and their motivations or what they believe to be "good", seemingly that they have some benevolent worldy principled intentions. At no point am I arguing that people don't have principles, just that those principles may manifest themselves in different ways (as the parent pointed out, the owners might sell and start a non profit privacy based solution, just like, ya know, Brian Acton did)

I was responding to what I quoted in my initial comment. And I meant what I said, nothing more, nothing less.

Please don't ascribe things to me that I did not say. Thanks a bunch.

We're here to evaluate whether the statement "Everyone has a price." (emphasis yours) is true or not and I have no interest in anything beyond that.

After all that's the part of your post I quoted.

You can negative-buy someone. Meaning: you can pay other "actors" to make their life so miserable that they will consider selling (or conceding whatever you would be asking of them).

In that sense, everyone has a price. It just doesn't necessarily go directly in their pockets.

Even so I know for a fact this won't work on everyone. Whatever you may do to them or offer them.

As long as there is people willing to literally die for a cause, this won't change.