[mildtrepidation]

Maybe its the best we can expect of a corporation.

Corporations don't make decisions; they don't do anything at all. The people who control them do. "A corporation" isn't even a single abstraction; there are so many different kinds and even the same kind can be set up and run so many different ways that having any expectation (or lack thereof) of "a corporation" is meaningless.

A good result from bad intentions isn't admirable. A war economy can create jobs, among other things, but that result doesn't make going to war an admirable decision.

[Karunamon]

Corporations don't make decisions; they don't do anything at all.

Nitpick - corporate leadership is responsible for the actions of those they lead.

Everyone knows what we're talking about when someone says "Microsoft did this" or "Y Combinator did that". It's a convenient shorthand that omits no useful information.

Nobody cares about the difference between an LLC and an S Corp and a Nonprofit when discussing corporate behavior (or lack thereof!) - their collective actions can and should still be critically evaluated through the same rubric.

[coldtea]

>Corporations don't make decisions; they don't do anything at all. The people who control them do.

The people that take those decisions are many and have various roles. The aggregate of them, we call a "corporation".

Think of it like an emergent entity. It's not just a person (e.g the CEO) making a decision all by himself. It's the whole leadership, the Board of directors, shareholders, the financial and market condition of the company, it's history etc.

In your logic, people don't take decisions and don't do anything either. Their brain does.