I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months

Re:I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months by sbierwagen on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @07:28PM (#29817385)

You might like Ronald Coase's "The Nature of the Firm". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm

A business is a socialist command economy embedded in a market economy, which has odd boundary effects at the interfaces.

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Re:I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months by paganel on Thursday January 06, 2022 @02:10AM (#29820368)

Thanks, I'll give it a try. I had read about it and about Coase relatively recently but I had skipped the subject, mostly. I think it's a very interesting subject, especially for our field, to be honest I didn't expect for the consolidation at the top to happen so fast (~10-12 years) and at so grand a scale, 9 of the biggest 10 companies by market cap are tech companies (I'm including Tesla here).

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Re:I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months by pyrale on Thursday January 06, 2022 @04:47AM (#29821421)

Command economies are not necessarily socialist. In particular, businesses really don't fit the definition of socialism.

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Re:I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months by CRConrad on Sunday January 09, 2022 @02:51PM (#29866731)

> Command economies are not necessarily socialist.

One counter-example comes immediately to mind, but mentioning that would cue a whole tedious discussion of "But that is socialism, it's even in the name!" vs "Just because it's in the name doesn't mean it actually is socialism!", so I won't spell it out.

> In particular, businesses really don't fit the definition of socialism.

No, true. As others have mentioned, feudalism ses a better fit.

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