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Imagine a solitary actor in a large corporation who is make a choice between x and y. She is presented with the precise set of inputs like emails, voice calls,
by denom 13y ago
Imagine a solitary actor in a large corporation who is make a choice between x and y. She is presented with the precise set of inputs like emails, voice calls, water cooler discussions which lead her to choose y. She is not forced to make the decision, but it comes naturally, quickly. Now imagine the result of that decision y being fed back into the corporate decision making structure. Thousands of people all "naturally" coming to their respective conclusions y', y'', y''', ... etc. This is corporate culture and history.
Now imagine some external driver of change appears on the horizon. How will the company respond? How will individuals within that company respond? I don't think it is so clear how or why people make the choices that they do.
In terms of right and wrong, the law identifies the act, but justice identifies with larger patterns; it is elusive yet tangible.
- pdonis 13y agoI don't think it is so clear how or why people make the choices that they do. That's often true; but that doesn't mean people aren't making choices. It just means they're making uninformed, and often bad, choices. And to fix the problem, they need to make better choices. Pretending that it's not human choice at all, but some "corporate agency", that is causing the problems is not the way to fix them.