#incorporation

[doomsayings]

There's a mystery in my crouching here like a beast of prey, flesh gripped by hunger. It's completely absurd: "Is God an animal I'd like to tear apart?" ...But I'm sicker than that. My hunger holds no interest for me. Rather than eat, my desire is to be eaten.

Georges Bataille, Guilty

And there God is waiting to eat him. Later he will go out again, but he will be changed, he will have become different, after being eaten and digested by God.

Simone Weil, Waiting for God

[economicsresearch]

page 588 - the Lapp School's Sea Creature model is based in real world experience and data sets. It replaced a pre-existing theoretical model.

The original model was conceived of by a group of non-Lappsian economists situated in a small fishing village at the far end of a towering granite fjord. Despite a bustling harbour full of bobbing dorries and clinkers the economists barely knew the sea and had certainly never seen a sea creature. The model stated that sea creatures were non destructive beings in their environment. Because it is a creature of the sea a sea creature loves the sea and everything in it. It will therefore never exhaust its habitat, the sea, and will never need to be controlled or have its behaviour reined in by King Triton, fishes, the government, etc. Despite their power and appetites sea creatures could be largely ignored.

The new model instead frames sea creatures as rapacious and dangerous. They are an indeterminate growth animal and as such consume their environment and resources regardless of any long-term damage. Once the sea is eaten the land is at risk as well.

Rather than relying on logic and discussion to develop the new model its creators used real world data, interestingly drawn from the village that had housed the pre-Lappsians. After consuming all marine life for miles around and leaving the village starving and it's economy destroyed, a sea creature arose from the water to lay waste and death. It consumed the economists amongst dozens of others.

[alwaysbewoke]

[futurebird]

Dumb Money

Money spent buying things is good for an economy & even stands a chance of increasing egalitarianism. In contrast, money invested is far more chaotic— And yet? When people run out of things to buy it is said then they must invest. And when invested in by others? well then you must reshape your actions, not even to the whims of your investors but rather to serve the legally binding needs of the “bottom line.” A line which may, when best served, lead you to discover yourself enacting cruelties you could not have managed to imagine (much less perpetrate) for the pedestrian, greedy task of merely increasing your own money. No, now you commit atrocities with all the credulous honor of a high priest in the name of shareholders and “fiduciary responsibility.”

Herein, at last, we see the corporation: opening its eyes, becoming a sentient, ravenous creature of abstractly defined desires. The first AI running on a mechanical computer made of the actions and choices of thousands of people.

I’m not so naive to suggest no joint ventures or limited liability should exist. It’s true sometimes people have a good idea, but no money— a goal of great expense, raising capital to make it happen then is only right.

I wish simply there was more care for how we shape the creatures we choose to embody— a need not just to raise money, but also to earn trust of a kind of quorum of individuals ready to take responsibility for the new monster. No more illusions of magic boxes where one would place a sum of money at night to then find it increased by dawn.

What I’m saying is in essence this: those we call “investors” are often not invested in the companies they realize at all! Many of these would be horrified by the ‘work’ their money has enabled. Or disgusted with the frivolous and intrinsically fraudulent character of the corporate projects they have sponsored; this system so designed to make exploitative extraction, liquidation mines and even pure con jobs not just easy, but inevitable, ordinary, and most conveniently morally distant.

[nobossinc]

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[whisperthatruns]

And so imagine my delight when, today, after chatting with my friend Walton for about an hour, I found myself, a few hours later in another conversation, employing---embodying---some of his elegant hand gestures: the emphatic hand swimming through the air, or pointing and plucking at something simultaneously, or, always, some kind of beckoning. I’ve been told there is a term for this among behavioral psychologists, which foregrounds the behavior as opposed to what intrigues me, which is the fact of our bodies’ ubiquitous porosities, how so often, and mostly unbeknownst, our bodies are the bodies of others.

Ross Gay, from “Incorporation,” The Book of Delights (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019)

[nehagargblog-blog]

Nidhi Company

A Nidhi Company is a type of Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFC) and Banking Companies. Their core business is borrowing and lending money between its members.