Corporations are soulless - a machine, designed by capitalistic evolution to be the most efficient money-eating creature possible - and so they have no values of their own. They are reflections of what society wants, because society's capital is what they eat. And so-
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Corporations are led by people... nuff said (Not sure something like a 'soul' even exists in living creatures)
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Nice thought, but I think it breaks down around diffusion of responsibility, coordination problems, and so on. Corporations and other structures are set up specifically to reflect certain representstion/values/results over others.
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This all sounds as if it supports my point that the Gillette ad was just a clumsy attempt at selling something to socially conscientious consumers who, for some reason, don't see through it as such.
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Corps give ppl what is profitable, which means they give society what it wants. If one has a prob with goods, services corps are providing and/or manner in which they're provided, that's a prob w the culture in the society in which one lives. Corps respond to, not create, this.
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And to be clear, whenever anyone hears the word 'Corporation', they typically think large local up to international corps. But the vast majority of corps are small and medium sized businesses with a smaller to larger handful of employees.
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Preach sis
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Counterpoint: DeBeers
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Ok but more seriously corporations can still feed us lies about value and effectiveness and popularity and so on. Ads may be true as aspirational things but still bullshit.
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Not all of the ideals are "ours" though. That is why
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You could argue they reflect back our worst that we usually embody, rather than our best that we sometimes aspire to, and perhaps in doing so make that best harder to reach.
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