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What’s really the difference between that and the action/response of an individual person to social pressure?

• tehjoker 7y ago
  It's similar, it's just that groups (esp. those focused on resource accumulation) are less moral than individuals. Whereas individuals might have ethics, dreams, a different way of thinking about the world, companies are tightly constrained in how they act without a stick beating them. For example, all these CEOs I'm sure know about climate change and might even feel despair about it (or believe we'll invent some carbon capture tech, or believe they'll be fine in a bunker in New Zealand because they're rich). However, imagine being a big executive that would have to make decisions contra the interests of their investors. The institutional pressures would make it near impossible, and if they resign in protest, they'll simply be replaced with an ideologically correct replacement. So you can see, individual hopes and dreams are ground up by institutional mechanisms, making the comparison not very straight forward.