Eric Ries on TikTok: 'We've accidentally designed companies to behave like sociopaths'

A direct-to-camera piece on the gap between making money and creating value: a business can look profitable on paper while pushing its real costs onto customers, employees and communities, succeeding financially in the short term while destroying value in the long run. The clip pulled nine replies on X within a day, several of them arguing with the premise rather than agreeing — Hason Greene's 'Not sure it accidental' among them — which is the signal worth watching on these rather than the play count.

“We've accidentally designed companies to behave like sociopaths.” — Eric Ries on TikTok