maximizing

It's not about maximizing short run happiness, but ensuring that the user is in control.

But the goal is the same thing: maximizing your own utility from what you value.

Or maybe they thought that for a government-funded vaccine that might save thousands of lives, maximizing availability was more important than maximizing economic value for a completely unrelated company.

As a result, maximizing the perceived difference between your knives and the ones they already have is key.

By your logic a company should not consider anything but maximizing revenue for every single product decision.

Great, then you agree that maximizing privacy at all costs isn't your or people's tradeoff point.

These are people maximizing their utility and deciding to work for USD50-200/month with 6 day weeks and 12 hour days.

You would be able to help direct capital to those businesses requiring it, thereby maximizing the benefit of investment to society.

Probably, but remember that if you're maximizing profit then one $100 margin customer is as important as 1000 $0.10 margin customers.

You don't pick your utility function, all you pick is your strategy for maximizing it.

And human rights seem like a prerequisite for maximizing a society's creative output.

On top of that you have all of the points he's getting for using various branded credit cards, maximizing bonuses, giveaway offers, etc.