East India Company counterexample: companies aren't automatically aligned to humanity
_ontologic · x · 2026-10-17
Countering the claim that companies are aligned by default because they're made of humans, ontologic offers a historical counterexample: the East India Trading Company was hardly aligned to human interests.
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