[mlthoughts2018]

I don’t find the problem of creating a company to be an interesting benchmark of discussion.

Why aren’t we talking about creating ethical companies and how to make it easier for companies to not seek to be corrupt, or set up barriers to corruption that are more verifiably not manipulable by those already with wealth or power?

I can’t see how any other angle of discussion about creating companies can be worth anyone’s time until that is better sorted.

[DoofusOfDeath]

> I can’t see how any other angle of discussion about creating companies can be worth anyone’s time until that is better sorted.

People differ regarding their personal ethics, ambitions, interests, and abilities.

If you make a compelling argument that your concerns are objectively the highest priority for discussion, even then only a fraction of the community will care to engage on the topic.

[mlthoughts2018]

I think that standard sort of reasoning is inadequate given the degree of corruption that is deeply evident in corporate behavior and the impact it has on basic lives.

For your explanation to be adequate, there would have to be such extreme indiosyncratic variation in the most common of human ethical standards relating to murder, sexual assault, gross scale bribery, child exploitation and many other issues that, from a cultural anthropology point of view, seem to yield a very highly correlated set of ethical norms across almost all of the developed world.

It just seems implausible compared with alternative explanations, like intentional large scale paychological manipulation.