would you be friends with your company?

[silky]

i've got a new idea for what the problem is. maybe it's not capitalism, or at least, it is (obviously) but here's a different angle on it.

the question is the following: would you be friends with your company? like, literally, could you go and have coffee with it, chat to it for a few hours; invite it over for dinner with your other friends, go out for a drink and comiserate over failures and missed opportunities. would you have empathy for it? would it have empathy for you ? for others?

i think it's fun to think about, because i think part of the issue is that we afford companies the right to almost exist as people, but most of them tend to be extremely phsychopathic in their approach to the world, if they were individuals that you knew.

we wouldn't let people get away with it; or at least, we could at least communicate to them our social norms and boundaries and expected behaviours. no reason we can't do that with companies too.