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That's the rub, at least for me. The poster above you is right, corporations are just corporations. If you look up the etymology of the word it comes from latin

That's the rub, at least for me. The poster above you is right, corporations are just corporations. If you look up the etymology of the word it comes from latin: corpus (genitive corporis) "body, dead body, animal body. This is why I think that, more and more, people who have a heart, are moving away from big entities like this. I expect in a couple of generations corporations will be a thing of the past, or something so far removed from society, that it will no longer exist as a social norm. The biggest problem is not the people, its the amount of people that organize together to make something happen. When you live and work in a sea of people vying for attention, to be seen and heard, there is no possibility of humanity. Its the size that makes or breaks the organization, not the people in it. It breaks accountability and it breaks social connections. I see smaller organizations all the time that act responsibility. These organizations usually consist of smaller teams. This is the future, a new way of living, small decentralized organizations providing the world with what it needs in a human way.

thaumasiotes 5y ago
> If you look up the etymology of the word it comes from latin: corpus (genitive corporis) "body, dead body, animal body. You could just shorten this to "body", which has the same range of meanings. If you want to say "corpse" in English or Latin, you can use a more explicit word, but you don't have to. The idea of "incorporation" is that something comes into existence - that it becomes "corporeal", not "soulless".
anonporridge 5y ago
> I expect in a couple of generations corporations will be a thing of the past, or something so far removed from society, that it will no longer exist as a social norm. Alternatively, in a couple of generations, people who have too much heart/soul and can't stomach being part of a corporate machine will be bred out of the gene pool and/or thrust into the powerless underclass, while the psychopaths that have no problem with them will acquire the most resources and reproduce the most, passing on their genes and their way of thinking to their children. Some might argue this already happened generations ago.
- halfdan 5y ago
  That's not how reproduction works though. The unprivileged often have more kids and people on the corporate bandwagon tend to have fewer.
  - anonporridge 5y ago
    They're also the first in line to die via disease, famine, and war.

thaumasiotes 5y ago

> If you look up the etymology of the word it comes from latin: corpus (genitive corporis) "body, dead body, animal body. You could just shorten this to "body", which has the same range of meanings. If you want to say "corpse" in English or Latin, you can use a more explicit word, but you don't have to. The idea of "incorporation" is that something comes into existence - that it becomes "corporeal", not "soulless".

anonporridge 5y ago

> I expect in a couple of generations corporations will be a thing of the past, or something so far removed from society, that it will no longer exist as a social norm. Alternatively, in a couple of generations, people who have too much heart/soul and can't stomach being part of a corporate machine will be bred out of the gene pool and/or thrust into the powerless underclass, while the psychopaths that have no problem with them will acquire the most resources and reproduce the most, passing on their genes and their way of thinking to their children. Some might argue this already happened generations ago.

halfdan 5y ago
That's not how reproduction works though. The unprivileged often have more kids and people on the corporate bandwagon tend to have fewer.
- anonporridge 5y ago
  They're also the first in line to die via disease, famine, and war.