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I love ham radio. It can’t love me back. I love fresh air. It can’t love me back. I don’t get this.

by op00to 3y ago

argiopetech 3y ago
73 OM
xbar 3y ago
True. Unlike some other things that don't love you back, corporations are actively abusive relationship partners. Whether an employee of or customer of a corporation, you are being misled and taken advantage of. There are benefits, of course, but you must be a willing participant to being misled. My feeling is that this is an unhealthy consequence of the relationship. Sidenote, I can say with some authority that you are admired for your love of ham radio and fresh air, even though they don't love you back.
- epicide 3y ago
  I'm not at all condoning the behavior of corporations, but the corporation itself is no more capable of having malice for you than a tornado or meteor. A corporation's appearance of hostility is a byproduct of its primary function to acquire things-that-store-value. That doesn't preclude the people within the corporation from having malice for you, though.
  - robertlagrant 3y ago
    Not necessarily store value, but being able to acquire or hire things and people that allow more value to flow through the company. Which are things other people want so much they'll pay for them.
    - epicide 3y ago
      Agreed. It's their primary function, not sole function.
      - robertlagrant 3y ago
        I'm also talking about primary function.
- Clent 3y ago
  Have you ever been in abusive relationship? A corporation is incapable of causing the harm that can come from a close relationship with a person. To be so caviler about this subject simply to justify your agenda is disgusting.
grotorea 3y ago
I get a bit the article because you can easily start thinking wrong if you're aren't careful, most obviously by committing the exact mistake of thinking the corporation loves you back. Or by being unduly favourable to an institution that just had its interests aligned with yours in some specific situations and won't act like you want it to in some other situation. Unlike a real loving relationship where you can expect the other person to take your interests into account. And are other institutions not be loved either? Can you love the Red Cross, the Catholic Church or the US federal government? And ham radio and fresh air are more things than institutions. Loving a nation is commonplace too.

I love ham radio. It can’t love me back. I love fresh air. It can’t love me back. I don’t get this.

by op00to 3y ago

I love ham radio. It can’t love me back. I love fresh air. It can’t love me back. I don’t get this.

argiopetech 3y ago

73 OM

xbar 3y ago

True. Unlike some other things that don't love you back, corporations are actively abusive relationship partners. Whether an employee of or customer of a corporation, you are being misled and taken advantage of. There are benefits, of course, but you must be a willing participant to being misled. My feeling is that this is an unhealthy consequence of the relationship. Sidenote, I can say with some authority that you are admired for your love of ham radio and fresh air, even though they don't love you back.

epicide 3y ago
I'm not at all condoning the behavior of corporations, but the corporation itself is no more capable of having malice for you than a tornado or meteor. A corporation's appearance of hostility is a byproduct of its primary function to acquire things-that-store-value. That doesn't preclude the people within the corporation from having malice for you, though.
- robertlagrant 3y ago
  Not necessarily store value, but being able to acquire or hire things and people that allow more value to flow through the company. Which are things other people want so much they'll pay for them.
  - epicide 3y ago
    Agreed. It's their primary function, not sole function.
    - robertlagrant 3y ago
      I'm also talking about primary function.
Clent 3y ago
Have you ever been in abusive relationship? A corporation is incapable of causing the harm that can come from a close relationship with a person. To be so caviler about this subject simply to justify your agenda is disgusting.

grotorea 3y ago

I get a bit the article because you can easily start thinking wrong if you're aren't careful, most obviously by committing the exact mistake of thinking the corporation loves you back. Or by being unduly favourable to an institution that just had its interests aligned with yours in some specific situations and won't act like you want it to in some other situation. Unlike a real loving relationship where you can expect the other person to take your interests into account. And are other institutions not be loved either? Can you love the Red Cross, the Catholic Church or the US federal government? And ham radio and fresh air are more things than institutions. Loving a nation is commonplace too.