Choose your favorite oppressive power structure

[Cramulus]

NOBODY wants corporate power??

that makes sense

For fun, let's imagine a corporate UTOPIA


I could imagine an employee-owned company operating as a sane and just government. And employee-owned companies tend to be less exploitative, and have better profit sharing.

You'd still have that pesky "rule by committee" problem -- that is, they tend to be slow and clumsy, although that might actually be a benefit in some ways

But I could imagine a company allocating resources and organizing labor better than a state bureaucracy.

[Cain]

I can't.

C'mon Cram you've worked for large companies before. They're hilariously inefficient. The idea that they're inherently better at allocating resources can be disproven by looking at the sheer, vast amounts of dead weight that make up middle management.

[Cramulus]

oh yeah, I'm just talking about utopias--best possible scenarios. I couldn't imagine any corporate, state, or religious themed utopia actually coming about.

What would a corporate utopia look like?

In the "good" corporate-owned future, I imagine it's an employee-owned company - one where the company is accountable to shareholder citizens.





yeah yeah yeah 99% of the shares would instantly be controlled by 1% of the shareholders, but that's why you have an uhhhh, constitution or something? Wealth for everybody! 

[Cain]

Probably something like a Silicon Valley tech startup, if we're talking utopia. Generous "in-house" benefits, but your entire life is effectively owned by the company. Company gym, supermarket, housing probably...

[altered]

That shit is a nightmare I've heard. Because people who do start-ups with lots of perks are clumsy, rich sociopaths who know they have no other hope of collecting and retaining talent but to swindle them into joining and lovebomb them into staying.

[chaotic neutral observer]

That shit is a nightmare I've heard. Because people who do start-ups with lots of perks are clumsy, rich sociopaths who know they have no other hope of collecting and retaining talent but to swindle them into joining and lovebomb them into staying.

Also see, "Curt Schilling".

[Cain]

Every utopia is just a dystopia with good branding.

[Nibor the Priest]

NOBODY wants corporate power??

that makes sense

For fun, let's imagine a corporate UTOPIA


I could imagine an employee-owned company operating as a sane and just government.

What's the difference between that and a worker-controlled state?

[Doktor Howl]

NOBODY wants corporate power??

that makes sense

For fun, let's imagine a corporate UTOPIA


I could imagine an employee-owned company operating as a sane and just government. And employee-owned companies tend to be less exploitative, and have better profit sharing.

You'd still have that pesky "rule by committee" problem -- that is, they tend to be slow and clumsy, although that might actually be a benefit in some ways

But I could imagine a company allocating resources and organizing labor better than a state bureaucracy.

1.  I am a corporate oppressive power structure, so I don't need one.

2.  Running a corporation as an employee run business, though, is as bad as trying to run a government like a business.  It's a category error.  Corporations are defined as businesses controlled by a board of shareholders (either in their own person or as a representative of lots of smaller shareholders.)  If it is employee-owned, it is not a corporation, it's a co-op.  Both have their own advantages and disadvantages. 

3.  I am a corporate utopia, so I don't need one.  I am in fact an expression of a corporation, at least while I am at work.  I used to preach against this, but of course I also used to be young.

[Junkenstein]

The main difference is what fines get called.

Corporate - service charge
Religious - indulgences
Gov - penalty notice.

I'm guessing we're probably quite close to moving to corporate without much changing. Whether you like it or not, Jeff bezos is probably a wealthier than what, 5 nations?  10?

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[Cramulus]

the religious utopia has socialized enlightenment

[Elder Iptuous]

Junkenstein.  That sounds like the book, Jennifer Government.
A quick, fun read. I recommend.

[LMNO]

Junkenstein.  That sounds like the book, Jennifer Government.
A quick, fun read. I recommend.

I remember this board playing the online version, years ago.  It was kind of fun.

[Elder Iptuous]

Huh!
Never heard of that.  Nation states....
I'll have to give that a go.