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Calling company strategy an "asshole move" is anthropomorphizing a lawnmower.
by integralid 9mo ago
Calling company strategy an "asshole move" is anthropomorphizing a lawnmower.
- amanaplanacanal 9mo agoCompany strategies are created by individual humans being assholes. Don't make excuses for them.
- hnbad 9mo agoBeing an asshole is incentivized by the system. If you don't want companies to behave like assholes, change the system to one that punishes that.
- BAM-DevCrew 9mo ago[dead]
- h2zizzle 9mo agoThe first step in disincentivizing being an asshole is pointing out that someone is being an asshole.
- skeeter2020 9mo agoThis is a parallel argument to the whole "to big to fail" nonsense and not really in line with the famous comparison of a single person to a machine. Company strategies are typically created by small groups of people who - especially in this case - know exactly what the impact and longer-reach implications of their decisions will be. It is entirely reasonable to hold the people of any organization accountable for the policies they enact via that organization.
- jaapz 9mo agoIt's still people who make up a company That strategy did not come into existence through some abstract entity