Cancer is a concept with context: cellular behavior within a multicellular organism. Companies are not cells in a multicellular organism. They're a totally diff

Cancer is a concept with context: cellular behavior within a multicellular organism. Companies are not cells in a multicellular organism. They're a totally different thing, and you can't just drop context like that. Context-free reasoning by analogy is horrible. To illustrate, I'll give a more obviously and dangerously wrong example: humans are cells in the body of humanity, so therefore we should kill weaker and older humans for the same reason the body disposes of senescent cells. See the problem? That being said: there are definitely valid social criticisms of the idea that the only purpose of a company is shareholder value for the sake of shareholder value. This is part of why Elon has stated that SpaceX will not go public until they are flying to Mars; SpaceX has a purpose beyond just making money.