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Businesses aren’t people

I feel like saying this because most people, even most people here, are infected with a brain virus that makes them think businesses can be reasoned with or convinced like a person. Businesses aren't people, they are an Egregore, they are a manufactured entity with their own goals and ambitions that extends beyond the people it functions through. At best they”re an extremely, weirdly powerful imaginary friend (not yours though) and at worst they're Cthulhu. It's patently insane to even try to appeal to business owners or CEOs because 9 times out of 10 they're not even in control of what the business does because of how boards of directors and public trading functions. If these things are harming the natural world with impunity it is worth burning them out like a sickness, not getting into endless online arguments about which are the “good” eldritch abominations.


I feel like saying this because most people, even most people here, are infected with a brain virus that makes them think businesses can be reasoned with or convinced like a person.

Businesses aren't people, they are an Egregore, they are a manufactured entity with their own goals and ambitions that extends beyond the people it functions through. At best they”re an extremely, weirdly powerful imaginary friend (not yours though) and at worst they're Cthulhu.

It's patently insane to even try to appeal to business owners or CEOs because 9 times out of 10 they're not even in control of what the business does because of how boards of directors and public trading functions.

If these things are harming the natural world with impunity it is worth burning them out like a sickness, not getting into endless online arguments about which are the “good” eldritch abominations.

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