Comment Re:autoplay sucks anyway (Score 1) 108
There is a legal obligation to focus on profits.
No, there is a legal obligation to act based on another party's interests, not based solely on another party's financial interests. Shareholders have interests other than money—having clean drinking water for their kids, supporting cultural growth, improving the quality of education, not getting buried in lawsuits from the government when you cross a legal line (though this one arguably is financial, just over the longer term), and so on. That's why you don't see shareholders suing companies for giving money to charities, for example. A purely financial misinterpretation of the word "fiduciary" would make such donations illegal.