Jayson_Virissimo comments on MetaMed: Evidence-Based Healthcare - Less Wrong

83 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 05 March 2013 01:16PM

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 14 March 2013 06:22:18AM *  2 points [-]

...some pricing is based on a goal other than maximizing profit.

I've worked at three jobs where the firm was not even in the ballpark of approximately maximizing profit. The first is now out of business. The second and third were in government.

Comment author: Decius 15 March 2013 12:14:33AM 0 points [-]

Government jobs are now going out of business.

You still have to understand the bottom line to be in business, but you don't have to worship it above e.g. employee health and welfare.