[huygens6363]

> Companies are amoral

This is a feature, not a bug.

We are system creators and let those systems do the work. We dislike getting our hands dirty and not just physically.

Companies are thinly veiled machines ran by grinding oiled up humans as cogs in intricate patterns that seem to produce useful results.

This is not a problem in and of itself, but we have to be honest about what we are doing and what the true endgame is.

“Powerful” people are just the top cogs in these machines and replaceable like all other cogs.

One day we will find out no one runs anything and we have slowly and inadvertently ceded total control to The Machine and have been ceding it for a long, long time already.

[paulryanrogers]

> "Powerful” people are just the top cogs in these machines and replaceable like all other cogs.

Maybe on a long enough timescale. In practice people at the top are much harder dislodge regardless of their function, because they wield the most power. Cases like Musk and Altman prove that even boards may be too weak to replace company heads; requiring absurd levels of effort like shareholder votes, legal action, political maneuvering, or all of the above. Worst case one must endure their reign until the CEO dies of old age, not unlike a king.