The rank-and-file serfs don't matter, they're expendable and interchangeable. When Dear Leadership is shaken up, it's newsworthy. When ten thousand labourers are let go, it's just a statistic.
This is EXACTLY what late stage "political" companies are like. There is no rational way to decide who gets the window office vs. the internal office. Everything is "political"
Pointing out that modern capitalism is comprised of actors that have large structural similarities to failed communist government seems like more valuable comment than your shallow and dismissive response.
I'll try to expand on my previous comment without using the "C" word itself, prior programming seems to have triggered an emotional reaction there.
Here are some qualities that many (if not most) corporations seem to share:
- centralized power
- collective goals (Team A has an 18 month plan to deliver V18)
- top-down approach
- bureaucratic hierarchy
- collectivist ideology (down to "we're a family, we're all in it together, do it for the company")
- controlled expression (approved list of questions for the all-hands meeting, anyone?)
- resistance to change
- top-down reforms (vc / top brass reorgs)
- limited transparency
Does that sound like traits characteristic of capitalism, or more like spooky ivan papa bear, sickle and hammer stuff?
Where the similarities end is around ownership. In an (idealized) communist system, people own the means of production; in a corporate setting, everything is owned by the organization. Of course this is a key, essential, and critical difference, and it goes all the way back to maybe the 1600's when chartered corporations first appeared; but the roots of that reach even earlier, to the aristocracy disempowered by the rise of the merchant class in the middle ages.
The idea of parasitic Majority Shareholders siphoning off any benefits created by the collective efforts of individually irrelevant and easily replaceable Individual Contributors has been with us ever since. That the corporate structures would adopt the social organization aspects of a system that was created in direct response to their relentless exploitation, well, that's just irony of the highest caliber.