“Corporations” are useful abstractions, but leaky. Google exists as a collection of people, most of whom are shielded from the profit motive. It’s also not ter

“Corporations” are useful abstractions, but leaky. Google exists as a collection of people, most of whom are shielded from the profit motive. It’s also not terribly controversial to note that, on average, Google employees don’t like that other half of the US people. The upshot: it’s not very hard for a corporation to end up doing things that are right or good for the members, but bad for the corporation’s survival.