A corporation is similar to a mob. It's a vehicle with which to diffuse responsibility with and do what is normally impossible.
The mob:company analogy also reveals why it can feel so draining within a company. You can't be part of a mob without signalling that you're "with it". Otherwise the mob turns on you.
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Mobs and companies both have a tension between the people that support the necessary amorality of the vehicle and the actual real payload.
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Both become violent and immoral when the payload is lost. Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy states that over time, those maintaining the vehicle wrest control over those who joined to deliver the payload.
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It's like is a sacred flame were walled off and not available to the public except for a select few high priests. No one actually knows that the flame was lost. Everything and everyone feels cold despite the glaring sun of 10,000 high-efficiency multi-wavelength LED lights.
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