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How can a company be libertarian? This doesn't make sense to me. A company is just an organization acting in some system. The system could be libertarian, or in
by generalpass 7y ago
How can a company be libertarian? This doesn't make sense to me. A company is just an organization acting in some system. The system could be libertarian, or individuals could be prefer libertarianism, but not a company.
The companies could promote libertarianism, but given Mark Zuckerberg's public requests to have facebook regulated, I don't think facebook is an example of a large company that supports libertarianism, let alone anarcho-capitalism.
How many people do you think in Silicon Valley believe that individuals should have more power than any government? Or who believe that government is illegitimate? I don't feel I find very many of them.
I felt the previous generation of engineers and admin were more anti-authoritarian than they were libertarian.
- atq2119 7y agoCompanies are basically emergent artificial intelligences. So yeah, they can be libertarian.
- generalpass 7y agoNo. They are organizations representing shareholders.
- atq2119 7y agoHow is that a logical contradiction? All intelligence has goals and constraints. A (publicly held) company's goals and constraints are partially informed by their shareholders. That doesn't change the fact that they're emergent artificial intelligences.
- generalpass 7y agoA lawyer representing someone can have whatever person positions the lawyer desires, but in the course of representing a client, the lawyer can only be an extension of what the client wants to be represented for. The same is true of anyone representing a shareholder. The company's goals and constraints are 100% informed by the shareholders.
- catalogia 7y agoDo you recognize differences between ideal theory and practical reality?
- generalpass 7y agoNo, I have no ability to understand the difference between the real world and Tamriel.
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