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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/Daojoan/statuses/114199049475412340">JA Westenberg (daojoan@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 15:48:32 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan" title="daojoan@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/138550-48-20231026081403.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="JA Westenberg" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">JA Westenberg</a></section><article><p>What interests me about IBM and the Reich isn't just corporations = evil.</p><p>I would consider that an axiom that leads nowhere particularly useful anymore.</p><p>To me, the interesting question is: what incentive structures produced this outcome? And do those same incentive structures still operate today?<br><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why-do-corporations-love-authoritarianism/" rel="nofollow">https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why-do-corporations-love-authoritarianism/</a></p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/4768532#notice-9341343">In conversation</a><time datetime="2025-03-21T15:48:32+09:00" title="Friday, 21-Mar-2025 15:48:32 JST">about a month ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/114199049475412340" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/114199049475412340">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/1531115">Untitled attachment</a></label><br></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: images.unsplash.com</div><h5><a href="https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why-do-corporations-love-authoritarianism/">Why Do Corporations Love Authoritarianism?</a></h5><div></div></header><div>The least fun fact you're likely to read today:IBM helped the Nazis.Through its German subsidiary Dehomag, "Big Blue" custom-engineered Hollerith punch card machines specifically designed to meet the Third Reich's requirements for tracking, sorting, and processing human beings.These were specialized systems developed to enhance the efficiency of</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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JA Westenberg (daojoan@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Mar-2025 15:48:32 JST JA Westenberg
What interests me about IBM and the Reich isn't just corporations = evil.
I would consider that an axiom that leads nowhere particularly useful anymore.
To me, the interesting question is: what incentive structures produced this outcome? And do those same incentive structures still operate today?
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/why-do-corporations-love-authoritarianism/
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