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> I wonder if in the future we will have more discussion of power and how to organize it in corporations, similar to what we discuss today about government. ht
by nxobject 3d ago
> I wonder if in the future we will have more discussion of power and how to organize it in corporations, similar to what we discuss today about government.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A64rR5Dp07s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A64rR5Dp07s
"You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beale. And I won't have it!
Is that clear?! You think you've merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance!
Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale?
You get up on your little twenty-one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today.
What do you think the Russians talk about in their councils of state -- Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical decision theories, minimax solutions, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do."