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Huh, that's an excellent point. When a company is so big and entrenched it doesn't need to seem like the nice guy anymore. Perhaps similarly to anti-monopoly
by fouc 8y ago
Huh, that's an excellent point. When a company is so big and entrenched it doesn't need to seem like the nice guy anymore.
Perhaps similarly to anti-monopoly laws we should also have size caps on companies.
- vorpalhex 8y ago> we should also have size caps on companies As a thought experiment, I've often wondered the best way to maintain the positive corporate culture that small companies tend to lose as they grow. It's not clear it's simply growth, or whether it's profits. I wonder if a non-charity oriented non-profit would maintain a better corporate culture.
- Consultant32452 8y agoDunbar's Number, I believe, gives some insight. Basically, humans can only maintain about 150 relationships. As organizations grow personal relationships are replaced with rules and structures as a matter of necessity.
- fouc 8y agoAgreed. I suppose sociopaths can get away with more when there's so many people that the relationship/connections between everyone are weaker on average.
- Consultant32452 8y agoI used to think the same way, but then I came to a different understanding of sociopathy as an evolutionary adaptation. Those sociopaths are important and useful. The video below has a little deeper explanation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Ftipn4fyI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33Ftipn4fyI
- TulliusCicero 8y ago> the positive corporate culture that small companies tend to lose as they grow. It's more like regression to the mean; it gets harder to be different as you grow. Good companies get worse, bad companies better (just look at Uber's internal culture).
- briandear 8y agoI would agree with that if we could also have a size cap on government.