The big conundrum of social media is that the *intent* is for human-to-human connections.
But at some point, organizations have to join. And why?
Because organizations are a critical aspect of human-to-human connections.
The problem, though, is that most organizations are based on the notion of a "fictional person" (e.g., a corporation).
That now complicates the pure human-to-human intent.
This is a bigger discussion than social media itself, but permit this aside.
It's not so much that corporations, in and of themselves, are evil.
The real evil is *why* they exist.
Hear me out.
Corporations mostly exist so people can say something like, "Oh, this isn't mine. This is the property of a fictional person. I merely work for that fictional person -- so don't sue me!"
No, that's not historically or economically accurate.
Corporations mostly exist because I can't afford to buy a lathe on my own, but if we put our money together we could buy one together and start making things to sell. BUT, how do we trust each other? And how do we trust other strangers who like what we're doing and would throw in some cash to buy more lathes to expand the operation?
Corporations exist to give a legal framework for strangers pooling resources to accomplish some task, even if they don't know or trust each other.
@volkris There is that aspect. But that’s not what my lawyer or accountant care about.
Right, because they're not interested in WHY corporations exist. They're just interested in their operation :)
Corporations, like insurance and ammonia production, play such a vital and underappreciated role in progressing society, enabling the creation of all sorts of things and promoting so many modern day efforts that would not otherwise be possible.
Even if people don't understand quite how they work.
I was going to compare them to sanitary sewers, but I think people DO recognize how important *those* are.
