See, this assigns a level of human personality to corporations that I don’t think we should be doing. It implies there is a “true self” to be revealed, when in reality the “self” of any corporation is entirely plastic and follows what the Excel Sheet tells them will make Line Go Up. Most corporate suits aren’t Elon Musk (who is, in fact, a human being, just a terrible one). Most corporate suits are dead inside and haven’t had a soul or a human emotion since 1985.
No, they just do whatever they can to appease whoever is in charge, because that is how they make money. They only became “LGBTQ friendly” when that was mainstream-acceptable and government-endorsed. And now that the culture is swinging the other way (more than half of americans wanted this fascist descent, never forget that) and the US is going all in on white supremacy and puritanism, they switch tunes right away. Case in point dia da consciência negra, the Brazilian equivalent of a black-history thing is still labelled on my Brazil-facing Google Calendar, because it’s still a government-sponsored and mainstream commemorative date here.
The thing is, corporations are run by people. Sometimes it’s a singular personality like Musk or Zuckerberg, sometimes it’s a board, but every one of those decisions is made by one or more human beings.
A corporation is not a person, but don’t deny the agency of the people that run it. They created the awful world we live in, and they did it with the explicit goal of taking from us.
I’d say the egregore of a company does have a personality, but you’re right - it’s not human. We’re not great at understanding non-human intelligence even in other mammals. Another example being the discourse surrounding AI.
Tech megacorps are wusses, in other news fire is hot.
They’re not wusses, they were just biding their time to unveil their true selves.
See, this assigns a level of human personality to corporations that I don’t think we should be doing. It implies there is a “true self” to be revealed, when in reality the “self” of any corporation is entirely plastic and follows what the Excel Sheet tells them will make Line Go Up. Most corporate suits aren’t Elon Musk (who is, in fact, a human being, just a terrible one). Most corporate suits are dead inside and haven’t had a soul or a human emotion since 1985.
No, they just do whatever they can to appease whoever is in charge, because that is how they make money. They only became “LGBTQ friendly” when that was mainstream-acceptable and government-endorsed. And now that the culture is swinging the other way (more than half of americans wanted this fascist descent, never forget that) and the US is going all in on white supremacy and puritanism, they switch tunes right away. Case in point dia da consciência negra, the Brazilian equivalent of a black-history thing is still labelled on my Brazil-facing Google Calendar, because it’s still a government-sponsored and mainstream commemorative date here.
The thing is, corporations are run by people. Sometimes it’s a singular personality like Musk or Zuckerberg, sometimes it’s a board, but every one of those decisions is made by one or more human beings.
A corporation is not a person, but don’t deny the agency of the people that run it. They created the awful world we live in, and they did it with the explicit goal of taking from us.
I’d say the egregore of a company does have a personality, but you’re right - it’s not human. We’re not great at understanding non-human intelligence even in other mammals. Another example being the discourse surrounding AI.