That's right. Entities must be acting as CITIZENS, first and foremost, bound by laws, norms, and shame.
Shame, the glue of civilization, as I call it, is quickly disappearing. The Nothing Matters LOL world is bound to decompose.
Shame, the glue of civilization, as I call it, is quickly disappearing. The Nothing Matters LOL world is bound to decompose.
Don't get me started on "corporations are people" bullshit. I use "citizen" with a much deeper meaning.
But in certain sense you are right. Corporate management should behave as citizens, and their citizen duties must be superior to their duties to shareholders.
Public benefit corporations seem to go nowhere far enough. And I wonder if the language is intentionally vague at the outset.
For example:
Simple example: let’s say there’s an environmental law preventing corporation to make more profits. The good citizen should not try lobbying to repeal this law, even if this would be perfectly legal and lead to better outcome for shareholders. If CEO acts as good citizen and refuses to follow advice of the board and take this route, this should be legally defensible position.
Sounds like a copout, but I do insist that many of modern ills can be traced directly to the cancer that is social media. Monetizing rage cannot end well.
And this is one part of society's ills that I will kind of blame on social media, although not in the way you and a lot of HN people intend. I think a lot of the strife in our modern society comes not from social media algorithms driving outrage so much as other groups simply being able to gain visibility as the centralized media establishment gave way to the far less centralized structure of the web. To people who have grown up their entire life with only rare, token (and often stereotyped) representation of other races, religions and orientations, equality can seem like oppression.
But I do think that blaming social media is kind of a copout, because the argument tends to be that people are being manipulated and controlled by an addiction or a form of mind control, as if they don't have agency or free will. A lot of the discourse around social media right now seems to use the same hyperbole that one might have seen during the Satanic Panic, or any number of previous social panics. But I don't think social media is the problem per se (nor do I think regulating social media would be an effective solution.) I think the problem is what social media exposes in society - exposes, not creates. That's a far more difficult problem to solve because it means reconciling with some deeply systemic issues that a lot of people still don't even want to admit exist.
Not all, but a good proportion of each of these forms of media.