Right. But if I'm right and the *trend* is toward unitarity in the executive, then the trend is *against* breaking up the organizations for which they are vessels. The Oracle (and Google) employees are tilting at windmills in a hopeless quest. They *are* useful idiots because they don't know the tidal wave (of unitary executive) is about to crush them.
I certainly hope I'm wrong. I've spent most of my professional life in nanoscale companies, fighting alongside the anarchists, but in a guise palatable by many of the gigascale organizations who've used me. But is it hopeless? Should I just get a job at a multinational, take some microdoses of nootropics to make my work for The Man more productive, and hope my non-productive elder years are at least blindingly happy? Or should I die on the battlefield, whacking at the tsunami with my broken paddle? On 2/20/20 9:13 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > < But now, that era is coming to an end. It's more true now that Turkey *is* > Erdoğan, the US *is* Trump, Oracle is Ellison, etc. > > > My point, putting on my anarchist hat, is that is less bad if the > organizations are deeply compromised in the process. If Oracle doesn't make > it in light of Microsoft and Postgres, etc. then life goes on. Eventually > Ellison dies or Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders take his money, etc. -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
