It's more like a percentage increase: the number of employees (P) is proportional to the machine-like state (M) of the corporation as a rough approximation. M

It's more like a percentage increase: the number of employees (P) is proportional to the machine-like state (M) of the corporation as a rough approximation. M = aP Where a is a constant that depends on the overall state of society, how capitalistic it is, how much regulation exists, etc. And then we could say M itself is proportional to the probability that various inhuman actions will be undertaken (where of course the probability is suitably transformed to make sense being proportional to an unbounded variable).