The problem of modern companies (public or private) is that institutional shareholders demand greater profits even if it affects the companies' long-term prospect. They simply want that line to go up, they don't bother much with the details of the company.

We need to socially rebuke the Friedman doctrine that’s at the root of all of this. It’s not even law but it’s so ingrained at this point people think it is.

We do, but 99.9999% of the people doing the work won't meaningfully experience any benefit from doing so.

So we never do. Nothing will change that other than enfranchising your people, other than upsetting the top-down hierarchy.

Well technically, humans are corporations of trillions of cells...

Aye by this logic I am a corp whose only offering is eating donuts all the time.

No regrets, btw.

But to the main point: corporations are humans, and the entire reason for executive positions is to create a human charged to act as empowered decision maker for the organization. They are the human while the rest of the bureaucracy is essentially a cog. That they, the execs, fail so often is a sign we need to GPT them

Well, better doesn't mean good.

But most people are also enwrapped in fantasies & dreams & ideas of where they are going.

What's happening to them famously doesn't incurse upon our dream-selves, is my view. We stick to our dream-selves & our quests, regardless of externals. And sometimes that is foolish. But it also shows I think a pigheadedness that gets it, that picks long wins, that isn't detered.