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> There is a trend in HN comments to remind people that a company is a collection of people. A company isn't really that, though: a company employs a collectio
by throwaway2245 6y ago
> There is a trend in HN comments to remind people that a company is a collection of people.
A company isn't really that, though: a company employs a collection of people to do the work desired by its owners.
Since Google is not an employee-owned company, it's not obvious that a group of employees have effective power in this matter.
- shrimp_emoji 6y agoIt's the same game theory behind dictatorship. In this case, the dictator can simply be an abstract profit motive, and its lust for blood tomorrow could always overrun today's principled moderation (especially once it begins to starve, which it will since all organizations, no matter how Ozymandian and grand, somehow crumble eventually). The best foundation for good outcomes is to not trust a company and to reject its control to begin with.