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> A system of people is a system of people, whether it is a church, company, municipality, whatever. Different systems of people behave very differently with d
by einpoklum 5y ago
> A system of people is a system of people, whether it is a church, company, municipality, whatever.
Different systems of people behave very differently with different kinds of motivations, stimuli and sanctions, on the individual and collective level.
And while there are many variables besides profit, it is money (and capital in particular) which enables most activities of a commercial corporation - not voluntary willingness to work or serve for some purpose; and it is Amazon's profit which the organization is designed to promote and maximize, over anything and everything else.
- dalbasal 5y agoTrue, though I don't see the contradiction. There are similarities and differences, also within such categories. In almost all cases though, they're not going to be as motivated to pay as they are to receive payment. Take subscription antipatterns for example. Charities do this too. They both also create similar self deceptions to justify the more onerous examples. It's not even just about money, convenience is a pretty big motivator. Again, I'm not saying that everything is the same, or being reductive. Quite the opposite. I'm saying that reducing everything to "capitalism," "greed" or whatever is meaningless. It's just normally the case, that people and groups are more cognizant of their own goals and wants than they are of others'. Altruism exists, but it's not uniformly distributed across everything an altruist does.