Re: Greg: Anthropomorphizing the Corporation

[umberto tosi <utosi@inreach.com>]

Hello Greg and Edward:

Any relationship between  hard-scrabble-job-creating entrepreneural startup
corporations (like those you've personally mentioned) and the corporate giants
that the media, the legal systems (and unfortunately most of the great
unwashed) tends to anthropormorphize is purely conincidental. I know, because
I've started and run small enterprises as well as labored long in  Fortune
1000 corporate highrises.  It's like saying that fleas are the same as
elephants because they both have long proboscoses.

Most corporate giants go out of their way to stomp out what they regard as
entreprenuerial fleas and with them often goes innovation as well as
competition.  Yet we continue to grant celebrity status to these giants. It's
not that we should demonize them either, but folks, grow up, they need checks
and balances just like any other power-weilding part of society or government.
They aren't our daddies. All good things don't spring from the profit motive,
some maybe, but we need to get a national life if we think all...

Bert

Greg Peisert wrote:

> Hello Edward;
>
>   I've started two corporations. The first failed. This one seems to be
> doing fairly well. Actually, I would think the abuses and disregard for the
> law of which Mr. St. John speaks should be more prevalent in closely held
> firms than in publicly traded ones where there is more government
> oversight. I could go through St. John's article and pull out statement
> after statement that is patently false, but I really don't think it's worth
> the bother. Perhaps people who are of St. John's disposition should read a
> book by one of those he finds so evil, like Michael Dell's excellent new
> book. I read it this weekend. What an inspiration! Great stuff.
>
> -- Greg
>
> On Sunday, March 07, 1999 10:01 PM, Edward Britton
> [SMTP:fremin@geocities.com] wrote:
> > Greg:
> >
> > Should you wish to do so, you may write the author concerning your
> > objections directly to the address attached to the header of the article.
> >
> > In the interim, may I assume that you have started and have owned a
> > corporation? If so, is the corporation now publically traded? I believe
> the
> > author's concerns center around publically held corporations and, as
> such,
> > are the focus of the treatise forwarded by myself.
> >
> > An eager student, Edward   ><>
> >
> >