@gemlog case in point, an LLC is a sort of firewall. Let's say i have a bait shop, and there's an icy sidewalk outside. you walk by, slip, fall, end up disabled, and the insurance comes for my business (liability for the icy walk.)
Lucky me, I'll just lose the bait shop, and not my house and life savings with it. The firewall is the LLC, or corporate form of the business defined as separate from me.
Were it not for the icy sidewalk of damocles, the corporate golem would not have risen!
@gemlog I'm the owner of at least one LLC, so I'll disagree kindly and continue on with the legal abstraction that allows me the possibility of operating a business without the liabilities that make it legally impossible to start.
It's one bad idea in response to other bad ideas in a sea of bad ideas upon which the thin veneer of our modern world mostly rests.
@gemlog it agree that it is amoral. I'll also add moderately blasphemous and exceptionally tasteless.
That said, the problem is not with the corporation, per-se, but with public companies.
Once a company becomes publicly listed, it has one legal obligation above all others: to maximize shareholder value, within the scuffed edges of the constraints of law, mostly, ideally, if convenient.
Too much abstraction for proper accountability. No bueno.
Final comment on the #LinuxCoc issue unless something interesting develops:
1) Linux is a threat to someone, and they want trouble. 2) SJWs are now confirmed useful idiots that can be used to sabotage anything by simply being there, waiting to be triggered like mortars. Employers and others in managerial capacity should take care to exclude such people. 3) Get to know FreeBSD / TrueOS: https://www.trueos.org/ 4) Meritocracy now, meritocracy tomorrow, meritocracy forever!
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