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Of all the comments, I think this has the most truth in it. Corporations are crappy at everything else other than making money. They are a way for us people to
by npteljes 5y ago
Of all the comments, I think this has the most truth in it. Corporations are crappy at everything else other than making money. They are a way for us people to organize in one certain way, so that we can express desires and energies in a way that's compatible with civilized society.
The problem comes when we expect anything else of corporations. Like, to be good archivists. Or good anything else. To be moral, responsible, ethical, caring. If these things are not directly tied to profit, and they are mostly not, then it's only secondary to profit, which means that it will suffer. Worst case it's just an externality to a company, or even specifically built upon it.
Now I'm not sold on any solution on what to do with this. But trusting corporations to not being anything else than for-profit is naive, and will end in hurt, given enough time.
- 8jef 5y agoI do agree with you, the solution I offer is far from ideal. It was only meant to be provocative and make people think about alternatives, as you did. More broadly, the way I see the situation, is that corporations are really a way for a group of people to get together and in-corporate the group, therefore create an entity acting as a separate person. This creates an imbalance: a corporation can be created, like any natural organism is born, but never share social responsibilities for its impacts on society, and may never die either, as long as money gets funnelled into it. This is unnatural, and makes the corporation totally adversary to the needs of the societies it grows in. More than the mere search of profit, the problem may be the pursuit or a never-ending existence, often at any cost. At any human cost for sure. Which is insane and destructive. It's the very definition of the golem.