I'd like to extend a warm welcome to everyone just discovering that American corporations have no innate interest in freedom or democracy, and will bend to state-backed power in a moment if they think it will cost them market access.
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Replying to @BeijingPalmer
I think this edgy analysis escaped from 1971. American corporations today are often led by highly ideological people with idiosyncratic beliefs, and a bunch of them will not hesitate to do things that cost them financially. Chick-fil-A doesn't close on Sundays to win market share
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If you can get a stirring defense of Chinese democracy into Golf Digest, the problem solves itself. The American CEO class is quite persuadable.
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I think you're mistaking a moderately narrow subset of tech for CEOs as a whole when it comes to whimsy, but it's absolutely true that conventional wisdom *about what is profitable or risky* drives corporations, rather than actual analysis.
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That's what makes political action possible; if corporate boards come to believe that bending to Chinese censorship is dangerous they will stop doing it.
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Replying to @BeijingPalmer @Pinboard
Consider the Theranos board! They weren't driven by individual fancies, but by a collective delusion - widely shared - that magic was produced *by the kind of person who behaved and looked like Elizabeth Holmes'
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Thanks for the PC concept, I'm definitely going to use it for "good"
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Replying to @sloth_debaucher @Pinboard
D&D VCs regularly invest millions of gold pieces in scrappy groups of 1st level adventurers they meet in taverns
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That whole phenomenon is really a critique of planned economies in disguise. Terrible things happen when you let central planners decide where to put money!
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