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"I hate to break it to you, but corporations are just groups of people. Corporate policies are written by and enforced by people. Stockholders are people. Employees are people. Customers are people. Corporations are giant networks of individuals. True, they exist in a very complex arrangement, but they are individuals." And people are just cells in a very complex arrangment. And cell are just atoms... There are corporate behaviors that emerge independently of any individual.
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AR, AK. It's a legitimate mistake. Now it makes sense.
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You're right -- not every behavior of a corporation (or government) is intended by the people within it. But somewhere along the line people can (and have an obligation to) try to change it once they see it when it's necessary to do so. The idea that a corporation has such inertia that nobody is accountable for its actions has always rubbed me the wrong way.
Posted by: David Spencer | September 04, 2008 at 10:37 PM