Glossary: "egregore" (because I've had to explain this to non-twitter friends a few times too many and there seem to be no linkable explanations on the net):
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"Since they are subject to market forces first and foremost, their goals are among the most estranged from a regular human's." I would substitute 'legible' for 'estranged'.
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Those are completely different things though? A corporation's goals are kind of legible yes, but the idea was that they're still alienated (estranged) from those of humans
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Legible means they're somewhat comprehensible/predictable from a human standpoint. The comparison I sometimes use is that corporations are demonic, religions are divine: demons have to obey contracts, gods refuse all constraint.
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