corporation

When I was a little kid, in the early 70s, the most impressive thing you could do was to work for a large corporation.

When I worked at a large corporation, I nearly automated all of my work and I was called lazy.

It's the first postmodern corporation, cleverly designed to look like a free market.

Then why would somebody running a large corporation hire more people than they thought would be needed to meet consumer demand?

Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back.

It's so fundamental that even a major corporation does it incidentally.

Watching this situation unfold is especially poignant for me. I'm also being sued personally -- despite my acting within the confines of a corporation -- by a lawyer working on contingency.

That's as nonsensical as a large corporation justifying their political donations as an innocent, democratic expression of political preference.

The idea that an MBA can never be of any value to anything other than a large corporation is as ridiculous as the idea that a coder who learnt Java and the Waterfall method at college will never be able to learn Objective C and cope with Agile.

" That is why it costs many millions of dollars to do the legal and accounting work to take a company public but only a couple of thousand to issue stock in a new corporation and only a few tens of thousands to raise a few million in a Series A private placement.

Someone's finally seen what Robert Heinlein wrote in Life-Line and essentially just paraphrased it:> There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest.