[ExI] oh holy corporation, praise be to ceo: was: RE: Severance

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] Severance

>...There are quite a few corporations which in practice act somewhat like religions in real life.  This series takes such examples and extends them.  Adrian

Adrian, thanks for that insightful comment (about the corporations not the show (never saw the show.))

I watched this unfold right here near where you enjoyed your childhood and youth, and where I have lived nearly all my adult life.  In our times, religion has lost the power it once wielded in our society (and everywhere else.)  Successful corporations (under the oversight of competent CEOs who grok that) recognized the phenomenon, and leveraged it to growth and profit.

Do let me offer the company that appears to have been the first and best at that: Apple.  The next biggie: Google.  Another biggie: Twitter (until Elon bought it and rescued it from bankruptcy.)  The people who worked there treated it as a religion of sorts.  The early Applers knew they were doing something outrageously significant, and poured their heart and soul into that company (in spite of Steve Jobs rather than because of him.)  Partially retract that last bit: Jobs was good at the reality-distortion field techniques, which fed right into the whole all-for-the-company sacrifice family life, sacrifice self, all for the greater good for the greatest number, beat the big evil corporation IBM attitude.  Starts to sound like a religion, ja?

Google figured it out bigtime, sold it to its employees even better than Apple.  I have reliable friends who work there or did at one time.

I don't know as much about Twitter (when Jack was nosediving it) but it has that feel to it, where the employees there would sacrifice everything, work their asses off to make that failing company survive, for the greater good, even after it was perfectly clear to them and the stockholders that no one was hauling back on the yoke, that the ground was coming up fast.  They "prayed" on, and worked on.

spike