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Corporations are people

posted by Siedge on Whatever

I own a business, a small business mind you that has yet to turn a profit but I am a business owner and I've been working 60 hours a week trying to build it to be successful.

There is this very negative stereotype about corporations and how evil they are and how we need to regulate them like crazy.

Let's take a huge corporation like google, google is a company I despise. I won't give my reasons here because it's irrelevant. But because I dislike them, I have removed them from my life. I don't use google for anything. I even adblock youtube on my phone and computer. (Sorry content creators)

When google does something bad people want regulations, instead of removing them from their life.

When you have a bad friend you don't ask the government to make them stop doing something. You tell them stop and when they won't you end the friendship. Companies are people the more you support bad business practices the more you will see of them. Regulations just allow bad people to stay in business, when you make it so a business can't destroy itself you ruin the concept of a free market.

My point being corporations are people, and just like people instead of asking the government to make them a good friend, you find a better friend. Theres so many small businesses out there that believe in treating people right, but it's hard for them to grow as we put more and more regulations on things. Where I'm from they've made a new rule on licenses for crane operators over a certain weight limit. It's not some license that you go take some simple test for, it's thousands of dollars per person. This means most small crane businesses won't be afford to run anymore, and definitely new businesses won't be able to be started.

This is sorta just my stream of thoughts on the subject.

I own a business, a small business mind you that has yet to turn a profit but I am a business owner and I've been working 60 hours a week trying to build it to be successful. There is this very negative stereotype about corporations and how evil they are and how we need to regulate them like crazy. Let's take a huge corporation like google, google is a company I despise. I won't give my reasons here because it's irrelevant. But because I dislike them, I have removed them from my life. I don't use google for anything. I even adblock youtube on my phone and computer. (Sorry content creators) When google does something bad people want regulations, instead of removing them from their life. When you have a bad friend you don't ask the government to make them stop doing something. You tell them stop and when they won't you end the friendship. Companies are people the more you support bad business practices the more you will see of them. Regulations just allow bad people to stay in business, when you make it so a business can't destroy itself you ruin the concept of a free market. My point being corporations are people, and just like people instead of asking the government to make them a good friend, you find a better friend. Theres so many small businesses out there that believe in treating people right, but it's hard for them to grow as we put more and more regulations on things. Where I'm from they've made a new rule on licenses for crane operators over a certain weight limit. It's not some license that you go take some simple test for, it's thousands of dollars per person. This means most small crane businesses won't be afford to run anymore, and definitely new businesses won't be able to be started. This is sorta just my stream of thoughts on the subject.

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[–] Phukin_Alduin 0 points (+0|-0)

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I'm not sure where that came from about the psychopaths as CEOs. Like, how would you even know that? It's not that I doubt it. If a psychopath is focused I'm sure they could accomplish a lot. All being a psychopath really means is you don't care about other people, so surely that's an advantage for a lot of situations. But like, psychopaths as CEOs just sounds like something somebody on the internet made up. There's no way to study that.

Aside from that, I've met some absurdly rich people before. Like Mitt Romney rich. They're not usually what you expect. You think they must just be killers, just kicking ass and taking names left and right, doing whatever they want. But they're either genuinely nice people or they're really really good at faking it. And they had no reason to fake it with me, I was nothing. I'm still nothing compared to them and their sphere of influence, and made no illusions of importance myself.

Or maybe it's just a midwestern thing. The NY elite are probably killers.

[–] CDanger 0 points (+0|-0)

I'm not sure where that came from about the psychopaths as CEOs. Like, how would you even know that?

This is a fairly well studied area of psychology. From a quick search I found this https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/13/1-in-5-ceos-are-psychopaths-australian-study-finds/

Basically to reach these sort of positions you have to be good at manipulating others (to gain power, perform actions that are beneficial to you, increase your influence, form alliances, don't anger those who could block you, etc). Some of this will have the appearance of being nice.

or they're really really good at faking it

Whether they're "faking" kind of misses the point: they may have treated you nicely, but that is because it is all a game to them, and by acting how they do they manipulate others to achieve their own goals.

I'm not saying every rich person or CEO is a psychopath, but the personality is far more represented in this demographic than perhaps any other because it can succeed in the corporate environment.