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It should be legendary how much better humans are at long term planning than corporations. Yet more heaping mounds of proof. Humans consider their bodies & wha
by rektide 3y ago
It should be legendary how much better humans are at long term planning than corporations. Yet more heaping mounds of proof. Humans consider their bodies & what might happen with far more realism than corporate naivety and reckless optimism.
- analognoise 3y agoWe don't reward long term corporate thinking. Humans can clearly do it, so corporations could too. The organism responds to its environment.
- zinekeller 3y agoThe problem of modern companies (public or private) is that institutional shareholders demand greater profits even if it affects the companies' long-term prospect. They simply want that line to go up, they don't bother much with the details of the company.
- rektide 3y agoWe do, but 99.9999% of the people doing the work won't meaningfully experience any benefit from doing so. So we never do. Nothing will change that other than enfranchising your people, other than upsetting the top-down hierarchy.
- azinman2 3y agoWe need to socially rebuke the Friedman doctrine that’s at the root of all of this. It’s not even law but it’s so ingrained at this point people think it is.
- sph 3y ago> how much better humans are at long term planning than corporations > Humans consider their bodies & what might happen with far more realism than corporate naivety Welp, this is how I learn I am not a human, but a corporation...
- kakwa_ 3y agoWell, better doesn't mean good.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoAye by this logic I am a corp whose only offering is eating donuts all the time. No regrets, btw. But to the main point: corporations are humans, and the entire reason for executive positions is to create a human charged to act as empowered decision maker for the organization. They are the human while the rest of the bureaucracy is essentially a cog. That they, the execs, fail so often is a sign we need to GPT them
- MichaelZuo 3y agoWell technically, humans are corporations of trillions of cells...
- npteljes 3y ago>Humans consider their bodies & what might happen with far more realism I don't think so. I'd say most people disregard to what's happening to them, even when it's apparent that something's wrong. And especially if there seems to be nothing wrong, so that the problem only exists in the form of warning, and forecasts.
- rektide 3y agoBut most people are also enwrapped in fantasies & dreams & ideas of where they are going. What's happening to them famously doesn't incurse upon our dream-selves, is my view. We stick to our dream-selves & our quests, regardless of externals. And sometimes that is foolish. But it also shows I think a pigheadedness that gets it, that picks long wins, that isn't detered.