[altairprime]

It’s not about success or failure, it’s about investing your ego so deeply into your business that morality and sanity end up seeming like reasonable currencies to spend as a last resort to viewing yourself as a failure. He is the Matt in the company name Auto-Matt-ic, so of course he’s taking it poorly. There are serious downsides to Cult of Personality meets Cult of Infinite Annual Growth.

Honestly, though, the weirdest thing to me about all of this is that corporations already behave like Matt every day, yet when a human starts doing so, we consider involuntarily removing them from society. Perhaps we ought to be less forgiving of his behaviors from the non-humans, too.

[acdha]

I think part of it is that corporations tend to be lawful evil, not chaotic. We shouldn’t forgive that but it’s not as dramatic when Oracle or Broadcom jacks up their prices because they don’t target one company with unhinged rants like they kicked the CEO’s dog, and it follows a legal contract process.

That boring grind just isn’t going to get attention the way an exploding dumpster does even though it’s more extractive.