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   clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 16:47:58 JST clacke

   The company that employs me is today 160 years old!

   This is pretty cool, but also highlights one of the problems with corporate personhood.

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     sudo beep (xurizaemon@toot.cafe)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 16:48:51 JST sudo beep

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     @clacke interesting! I hadn't considered longevity as an issue, but for sure can agree immortals are a problem in most stories.

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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 16:48:56 JST clacke

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     @xurizaemon Corporations are powerful, immortal reptilians/AIs.
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     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 09:42:35 JST clacke

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     • Charlie Stross
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     • John Nesky

     antipope.org/charlie/blog-stat…

     "Corporations have a mean life expectancy of around 30 years, but are potentially immortal; they live only in the present, having little regard for past or (thanks to short term accounting regulations) the deep future: and they generally exhibit a sociopathic lack of empathy."

     /by @cstross
     /via mastodon.gamedev.place/@johnne… @johnnesky

     /cc @xurizaemon