Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button
by pfortuny on Thursday June 07, 2018 @09:23AM
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Of course: that is why Adam Smith speaks of people and not corporations. And I was speaking of people as well.
Corporations are a different subject matter.
Re:GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5B Undo Button
by dbingham on Thursday June 07, 2018 @09:34AM
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Fair enough. However, the context of this discussion -- and the modern economic context -- is made up primarily of corporate actors.
Which is one more reason why the application of Adam's philosophy doesn't make sense.
Further, the vast majority of stock corporations have no values, ethics, or morals. They have only the maximization of stock holder value -- which is to say: greed. We know this from piles and piles of data on corporate behavior.
People and organizations of people are very different creatures and behave in very different ways.