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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.'

Usually, the biggest companies are not the most dynamic.

So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving.

More company increases happiness, but does not lighten or diminish misery.

This dilettante notion that the global economy is evil because big corporate leaders make too much money... they do make too much money, but the only way we've figured out how to generate wealth in this world is through the market economy.

It costs a lot to build bad products.

In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction.

Derivatives in and of themselves are not evil. There's nothing evil about how they're traded, how they're accounted for, and how they're financed, like any other financial instrument, if done properly.

If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more.

I think that companies always become complacent, over time. Or most companies, that is.