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> The way I see it, companies literally ruin the world for mostly imperceptible, and mostly abstract, benefit of the very few. How do you build a car without a
by Ntrails 5y ago
> The way I see it, companies literally ruin the world for mostly imperceptible, and mostly abstract, benefit of the very few.
How do you build a car without a company? How do you get 100 people to work together? How do you get components, carry out testing, and still keep people "fed and watered"?
The only other answer I have ever heard is "the state".
- grishka 5y agoI don't mean "don't earn money at all and go full communism". I mean "stop making active steps towards increasing profits when your income already covers your expenses ten times over". I also meant "for-profit", and probably publicly-traded, companies specifically. A company doesn't have to be of this type. There are privately-owned companies that build products people genuinely love. There also are nonprofits.
- Ntrails 5y agoPrivately owned companies merely enrich their owners. If anything they are more likely to prioritise profits. Large charities accumulate wealth endlessly through active fundraising despite having enough to cover their costs for over a decade. The issue isn't the collective fiction of the "company", it is "humans" and an inherent greed and self centredness (imo)
- grishka 5y agoI must be some wrong type of human then.