As Gregory Bateson put it in "Steps to an Ecology of Mind" (1972), a business corporation is not a group of people, but a group of parts of people; i.e. Economic Man #1, Economic Man #2, Economic Man #3, etc.
Doug Woodard St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Keith Addison wrote: > You can't change a corporation's mindset by education, nor by any > means other than hurting their bottom line. The humans who work for > them notwithstanding, corporations are not human and do not have > human drives or instincts or inhibitions, their only drive is > profit-growth. Their PR budgets help people to think they're > oh-so-human, but the money's only spent because it helps the bottom > line. You can educate them like Pavlov educated his dogs, via shocks > that hurt their bottom line and rewards that improve it. Unlike dogs, > it doesn't work without the shocks. _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
