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> how many times does someone have to show you who they are before you believe it? It's dangerous to anthropomorphise corporations (or nations). Yes, corporate
by ithkuil 7y ago
> how many times does someone have to show you who they are before you believe it?
It's dangerous to anthropomorphise corporations (or nations).
Yes, corporate culture is sticky but you can more easily change a corporate culture by a radical demographics change both at the base and at the top, and redesigning the incentives.
That goes both ways and it's why you cannot have inherently "good" corporations either (no matter what their positive track record is).
- skohan 7y agoYou're absolutely right, and I was probably being a bit too poetic in my wording. What I mean to say more precisely is: when a corporation has a documented history of using benevolence to acquire market share, and then leveraging that market share to pivot in an anti-competitive, anti-consumer direction, then it is more rational to approach their new-found benevolence with skepticism rather than optimism.