DanielSep 25, 2025
Andrew Kelley

Corporations are not "greedy" because they are not humans.

Corporations are machines that are simply doing what they have been programmed to do.

When we don't like what a human does, we use emotional tactics like shame in attempt to change their behavior.

This is completely ineffective against corporations. A machine cannot be shamed into functioning differently. Instead, it must be reprogrammed for an alternate purpose.

Sep 24, 2025 at 9:47pmWeb
Show threadDaniel M KarlssonSep 24, 2025
@andrewrk I concur.
Show threadLip TaoSep 24, 2025
@andrewrk
I recognise so well my president E.Macron in what you say here...
🙏
Shame doesn't work on corrupted politicians !
Show threadLRSep 24, 2025
@andrewrk indeed. https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@lritter/115252819812687836
Leonard Ritter (@[email protected])

saying disney were reacting because of money not because people were angry, is like saying "i want you to listen to me because you empathize with me, not because the tone of my voice, the content of my speech and my facial expression cause your memory system and mirror neurons to trigger cortisol release and amygdala activation that makes you feel compelled to respond." money is simply a hormone of the corporate body.

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Show threadmastodonphan HAS MOVEDSep 25, 2025

@andrewrk Alternatively, a machine that proves ineffectual can also have the following happen to it:

Be tossed out
Be blown up
Be corroded
Be smashed to bits

Show threadEliza MBSep 25, 2025
@andrewrk this is true. However people control companies and people have to make that programming change.
Show threadssmidSep 25, 2025
@andrewrk In the past, we also had reckless companies but a larger amount than now had people at the top that felt responsible for it. Today, companies not only treat their employees badly but also even their customers. Why? Because a) tech oligopoly and b) "it's the machine doing it". This is just an excuse. Companies must be held responsible. There must be economic incentive to not do this. We need to restore competition
a) break the TO apart
b) self-owned data
c) internet-independent products
Show threadssmidSep 25, 2025
@andrewrk In other words: if you can't control your tech, it controls you, and there can't be competition, and no economic incentive for "good" behaviour.
Show threadAndrewFSep 25, 2025
@andrewrk I think I disagree with that. Corporations care about publicity (good or bad). How is that different from ‘feeling shame’? (I mean, just like with humans, you gotta back up that social pressure with actual laws too.)
Show threadSahnvourSep 25, 2025
@andrewrk and they are not programmed in a vacuum, but in a socio-politico-economic system, that sets their goal (increasing capital) and makes some choices feasible or not, regardless of individual will.
Show threadBakunin BoysSep 25, 2025
@andrewrk why are they such pricks though? Like between profit and dehumanisation, they'll pick (2) every time. There are many times where regulation has actually reduced costs for business because their real goal is misery.