HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know

Re:HR is not your friend, and other things I think you shoul... by roenxi on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:20AM (#25818788)

While gp is using slightly emotive language, they didn't at any point say that the feudal structure was bad. A feudal structure is pretty effective in a localised setting where most people know most other people and everyone is happy-enough with the person at the pinacle of the status tree.

The major downsides of old-school feudalism were (1) Doesn't really scale to populations of 200k+ and (2) the We Cannot Get Out problem.

Corporate structure solves both those problems pretty neatly.

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Re:HR is not your friend, and other things I think you shoul... by xg15 on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:32AM (#25818854)

Er, nope. Or at least you cannot call this system a democracy of 50% if all decisions are done in a feudal system or are done to appease the lord.

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Re:HR is not your friend, and other things I think you shoul... by cercatrova on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:41AM (#25818914)

A corporation is not a democracy though, and no one is calling it that. Everyone knows this acutely because they know they have a boss to appease. In contrast, in a government, there's really no "boss" to appease, we choose the leaders.

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Re:HR is not your friend, and other things I think you shoul... by tomp on Monday January 18, 2021 @04:20AM (#25819853)

Indeed.

Really the only difference between feudalism and capitalism is the latter’s ability/freedom to fail. Shitty hierarchical structures are replaced by newly emerging better hierarchical structures. Serfs migrate easily.

All this is basically a consequence of companies & people not being defined by / tied to land (as serfdoms were - basically farms). Rising from agrarian to industrial society is what enabled this.

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