There is so much bad manners and oafishness in large corporations.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Bad company is as instructive as licentiousness. One makes up for the loss of one's innocence with the loss of one's prejudices.
Is it possible to run a big industrial corporation in a benevolent fashion? We see these days that even the hippest companies hide some rotten practices to make their profit margins work.
The public may admire a corporation for its impressive size. Who in the United States doesn't? But when a business, however gigantic, gets smug enough to believe that it is sufficient only to match competition on trivial points instead of leading competition in valid matters, that business is becoming vulnerable to public disfavor.
Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones.
It doesn't take many people to have a bad sense of humor to get in trouble at a corporation.
Typically, when there are corporate habits that undermine individuals, it has emerged without any sort of central planning. Nobody sits down and says, 'I'm going to create an evil habit for this corporation.'
Large corporations, of course, are blinded by greed. The laws under which they operate require it - their shareholders would revolt at anything less.
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
Talking about corporations - they're so big. There's not a person at a corporation.
Corporations aren't people. They have no brains, no consciences, no capacity for intent or guilt.